Site Reliability Engineer, Kraken

• 5+ years of experience working in an SRE, DevOps, or as a Backend Developer with infrastructure
• 3+ years of experience with a programming language (Rust, Golang, or Python)
• 1+ year of experience maintaining production Kafka clusters
• A strong security mindset and experience in establishing security best practices in complex environments
• Extensive experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, AlertManager
• Thorough knowledge of Docker and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or Nomad
• Ability to set up various types of proxy services such as HAProxy and Nginx
• Passion for improving processes, products, and the developer experience for engineering teams
• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Professional experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Salt, and container orchestration technologies like the HashiCorp stack (Vault, Consul, Nomad) and Kubernetes
• Proficient in Git source version control
• Ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a team-based environment
• Self-starter, capable of context-switching between various projects, codebases, and concepts
• Ability to independently debug problems involving networks and operating systems
• Practical experience with modern Linux systems, command line, and shell scripting
• Knowledgeable about continuous integration and delivery best practices
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Desirable

• As part of Kraken's Core Infrastructure Team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers building and maintaining Kraken's infrastructure. 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 specifications and generally automate internal processes to empower developers and improve team efficiency
• Responsible for the Core Infrastructure Platform supporting Kraken’s exchange, which includes a highly resilient and available, distributed infrastructure with low-latency trading, compute, storage, networking, both on-premises and in the cloud
• Deliver, monitor, and support Staging and Production infrastructure and services
• Migrate services and applications between cloud environments and on-premises data centers
• Design, build, and maintain software tooling to help improve developer velocity
• Implement and maintain security best practices for infrastructure and services, ensuring system security and availability
• Manage service deployments using orchestration technologies such as Nomad and Kubernetes
• Write software and configuration specifications to track key metrics and generate alerts
• Collaborate with Dev, QA, SRE, and Product teams to support and improve the SDLC
• Migrate and maintain solutions to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
• Build, maintain, and monitor Ingress Infrastructure with internal tools and external CDNs
• Support and monitor distributed data services such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB
• Implement and manage Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools
• Automate internal processes and provide self-service tools to other teams
• Benchmark applications, identify bottlenecks, and lead towards resolution
• Support a fully distributed team operating across numerous time zones
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and provide guidance to other teams
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the smooth operation of critical systems