Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Database Platform Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $110,400 - $220,800 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.
  • Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB and other NoSQL databases.
  • Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.
  • Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, raise documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.
  • Implement, deploy, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational leverage.
  • Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data access patterns, query optimization, schema design, operational readiness, and safe adoption of shared infrastructure.
  • Improve observability, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, and operational reviews so that systems are easier to understand and incidents are less likely to happen.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience operating production-grade stateful or distributed systems.
  • Solid software engineering skills in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar.
  • Experience deploying and operating tools and services in production.
  • Practical Kubernetes experience, especially around stateful workloads, upgrades, storage, and failure modes.
  • Strong Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting fundamentals.
  • Experience with observability, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvement.
Benefits
  • Offers Equity
  • Wellness allowance
  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRustGoKubernetesLinuxnetworkingobservabilityalertingincident responseNoSQL databases
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationoperational readinessdiagnostics improvementdocumentation qualityincident resolutioncapacity managementperformance optimizationschema design