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.

Before you apply please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture values and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here .

As a fully remote company we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders institutions and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security crypto education and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro Kraken NFT and Kraken Futures .

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

Kraken is a dynamic and innovative company at the forefront of the crypto industry. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products that meet the highest standards of excellence and reliability. Our culture is open flexible and fosters a collaborative environment where creativity and innovation thrive.

As part of Kraken's Accounts Portfolio and Earnings team you will work within a world-class team of engineers building Kraken's infrastructure using Rust. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be keeping one of the fastest growing companies in the world up and available in a 24/7 environment. You will bring your own technical expertise to monitor and support staging and production environments build tooling CI/CD pipelines deployment specs and generally automate internal processes to empower developers and improve team efficiency.

The opportunity

• Monitor and support Staging and Production environments

• Improve Developer Tooling help with building Docker images manage our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for automating quality testing track key metrics and generate reports

• Optimize the performance of our system (we operate a sub-ms trading path)

• Keep our product available 24/7 and improve its reliability

• Harden the security of our exchange

• Collaborate with Dev QA and Product teams jump in to support and improve development and release cycle

• Automate syncing between services to improve the backend developer and QA workflows

• Develop tools and bots to improve and automate internal processes

• Support a fully distributed team operating across numerous timezones

Skills you should HODL

• 5+ years in a DevOps role (DevOps SRE etc)

• 1-3+ years experience with a programming language (Rust and/or Golang)

• Proficient in Git source version-control

• Thorough knowledge of Docker experience with Terraform and Helm Charts

• Passion for improving process and products

• Experience configuring Continuous Integration (CI)

• Ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a team-based environment

• Experience with monitoring / alerting (primarily with Prometheus / Grafana) and knowledge of best practices in the area

• Self-starter ability to context-switch between various projects codebases and concepts

• Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system

• Well-versed in scripting languages building and administration of Linux

• Interest in security and a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the security implications of development decisions

Nice to haves

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure

• Experience benchmarking applications and identifying bottlenecks

• Experience with Slack Jira Google and/or Gitlab APIs

• Experience with distributed systems and technologies (gRPC Kafka NoSQL SQL Redis)

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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age date of birth or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents backgrounds contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities knowledge and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race ethnicity age gender identity citizenship religion sexual orientation disability pregnancy veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws.

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