Kraken

Platform Engineer – Observability

Kraken

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Melbourne • Australia

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Tech Stack

AWSGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Support and implement monitoring and alerting strategy across Kraken’s customer business
  • Define and uphold observability best practices across multiple products and platforms
  • Partner with product teams to implement observability tooling and improve reliability across the organization
  • Help product teams transition to on-call models by improving signals, alert quality, and operational readiness
  • Improve tooling and self-service capabilities for alerting and monitoring across multiple product teams

Requirements

  • Solid hands-on experience across core platform stack (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)
  • Experience using observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Exposure to Python or similar languages (TypeScript, Go, C#)
  • Previous experience in small, highly autonomous teams
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and proactive learning mindset
  • Strong asynchronous written communication skills
Benefits
  • Great Place to Work certified
  • Support for unique preferences or accommodations during interviews
  • High degree of autonomy and trust
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformKubernetesPythonTypeScriptGoC#
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproactive learningasynchronous written communication