Senior Database Platform Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Database Platform Engineer at Kraken responsible for the reliability and performance of shared database systems. Operate platforms like Kafka and Redis while improving system observability.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,400 - $220,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsElasticSearchGoKafkaKubernetesLinuxMariaDBNoSQLPythonRedisRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Offers Equity
Wellness allowance
Medical, dental, vision insurance
401(k) plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonRustGoKubernetesLinuxnetworkingobservabilityalertingincident responseNoSQL databases

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationoperational readinessdiagnostics improvementdocumentation qualityincident resolutioncapacity managementperformance optimizationschema design