Building the Future of Crypto
Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
What makes us different?
Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you'll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken's focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.
The opportunity
- Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.
- Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.
- Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.
- Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments.
- Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns.
- Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments.
- Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization.
- Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering.
Skills You Should HODL
- 5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios.
- Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers.
- Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
- Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with containers and orchestration platforms.
- Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.
- Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.
Nice to haves
- Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs.
- Strong scripting or programming ability (Python or Rust preferred) used to build automation and internal tools.
- Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling.
- Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery designs.
- Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.