
Senior Database Platform Engineer
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRustGoKubernetesLinuxnetworkingobservabilityalertingincident responseNoSQL databases
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationoperational readinessdiagnostics improvementdocumentation qualityincident resolutioncapacity managementperformance optimizationschema design