Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kraken
Cryptocurrency exchange
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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)
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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