Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Kraken
Platforms Orchestration
Cryptocurrency exchange
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Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- Strong background in Linux, Networking, and Distributed Systems
- Significant hands-on experience with Nomad container orchestration platform in a high availability, production environment
- Hands-on experience with other HashiCorp tools, such as Vault and Consul
- Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Strong security mindset and experience implementing security best practices in a complex environment
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Significant experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Bash
- Passion for improving processes, products, and the developer experience for engineering teams
- Knowledgeable about continuous integration and delivery best practices
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- 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
What the job involves
- Join our Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team and start playing a vital role in managing and enhancing Kraken's engineering platform! The Core Infrastructure - Platform team is responsible for managing and applying best practices to our orchestration platform while providing infrastructure support across Engineering
- The Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team at Kraken is dedicated to creating a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure platform that facilitates a continuous approach to our software development practices. Lately, the team has been focusing on providing a self-service platform for engineers to easily access and manage their services in the clusters the team provides, and manages
- Find out more about Core Infrastructure Engineering in our latest engineering blogpost!
- Extend and automate the existing container orchestration platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance
- Work closely with SREs from different teams to reduce their cognitive load related to the orchestration platform
- Implement and maintain security best practices for the orchestration platform, ensuring the security and availability of our systems
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues, as well as provide guidance and support to other team members
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the smooth operation of our critical systems
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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