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Kraken is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building and maintaining real-time streaming infrastructure for their digital asset exchange. The role requires extensive experience in data engineering, team management, and familiarity with AI and automation technologies.
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Job Summary
This role leads the team responsible for Kraken's streaming and data platform layer, designing systems that move, transform, and serve data in real time.
The successful candidate will own the architecture around stream processing technologies like RisingWave and Apache Flink while driving the adoption of AI-powered automation across the data stack.
Kraken is a fully remote company with employees in over 70 countries, offering a mission-focused environment dedicated to accelerating global crypto adoption.
Matching Summary
Match Score: 75
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Kraken is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building and maintaining real-time streaming infrastructure for their digital asset exchange. The role requires extensive experience in data engineering, team management, and familiarity with AI and automation technologies.
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Salary
Not specified; Not specified; Not specified
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
8+ years data or platform engineering experience
3+ years managing engineering teams
AWS data-lake architecture with Spark and Iceberg
Real-time streaming expertise with Kafka and Flink
Python, Scala, or Java production proficiency
AI/ML-powered automation in data workflows
Nice-to-have
Experience with RisingWave or Clickhouse
Familiarity with LLM-based agents and LangChain
Background in cryptocurrency trading systems
Contributions to open-source streaming projects
Self-service data platform tooling development
Key Requirements
8+ years in data engineering or distributed systems
Minimum 3 years of engineering management experience
Proven track record hiring and developing remote teams