Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Site Reliability Engineer managing infrastructure for Payward Services at Kraken. Ensure performant, resilient, and continuously improving services with global teams.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,400 - $220,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and support infrastructure for Payward Services, including Nomad, Kubernetes, databases, and 3rd party system integration
Provide operational support across multiple teams, helping debug issues in staging and production environments
Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to improve system resilience
Consult with teams on performance, monitoring, and alerting best practices — with awareness of partner-facing SLA commitments
Build tooling, automation, and dashboards to improve observability and empower development teams
Maintain and troubleshoot CI pipelines, ensuring reliable and fast build, test, and deployment cycles
Collaborate with developers, QA, and product managers to streamline development and release cycles
Support a fully distributed team operating across multiple timezones

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in DevOps or SRE role
Proficiency with hybrid-cloud infrastructure environments
Git source version-control and CI/CD configuration proficiency
Deep understanding of monitoring and alerting systems, preferably Prometheus and Grafana
Ability to debug complex distributed systems, networks, and Linux operating systems issues
Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes a plus)
Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go)
Self-starter capable of thriving independently and remotely in fast-paced environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsSREhybrid-cloud infrastructureGitCI/CDmonitoring systemsalerting systemscontainerizationorchestrationscripting

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcollaborationindependenceadaptabilitycommunication