Lead Platform Engineer
Kraken
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of the products on our platform
- Lead delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines
- Partner effectively with Product Management and the wider Platform Engineering team to deliver successful outcomes
- Keep up with best practices in building products for scale
- Pinpoint areas for enhancement, ensure optimal infrastructure performance, and continuously improve our platforms reliability and efficiency
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills, working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvements
- Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale
- Meticulous organisation and planning skills
- Experience of mentoring and coaching a team to perform at a high-level of quality
- Experience managing and supporting a large-scale internet-facing distributed systems, for millions of customers
- Good experience with AWS and a programming language. We use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few
- Knowledge of security best-practices, security and CI/CD tooling, and methodologies
- Previous experience in leading technical delivery for small, highly-autonomous teams
- Previous experience as a technical individual contributor, preferably as a Platform or DevOps Engineer
- Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes
- A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement
- Previous experience working in a remote-first asynchronous global team
- Familiarity with some of our tech stack: PostgreSQL, or a similar RDBMS, particularly in Amazon RDS at scale
- Docker and Kubernetes, we use Amazon EKS in production
- Python
- Datadog, or a similar logging/monitoring tool
- Messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQTerraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool
- Experience with a Linux distribution
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSPythonPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesTerraformLinuxCI/CDevent-driven processingRabbitMQ
Soft Skills
communicationorganizationplanningmentoringcoachingcollaborationproactive mindsetinnovationcontinuous improvementremote teamwork