Senior Database Platform Engineer

Kraken

United States, United States
Fully remote
Operating production-grade stateful systems
Software engineering in python, rust, go
Automating infrastructure or operations
Kraken is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to enhance and maintain their shared data systems, ensuring high reliability and performance across various technologies. The role emphasizes a hands-on approach to production-grade systems and collaboration with internal engineering teams, all while supporting Kraken's mission to promote global crypto adoption

Job Summary

  • Own the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.
  • Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.
  • Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data access patterns, query optimization, schema design, operational readiness, and safe adoption of shared infrastructure.

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Kraken is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to enhance and maintain their shared data systems, ensuring high reliability and performance across various technologies. The role emphasizes a hands-on approach to production-grade systems and collaboration with internal engineering teams, all while supporting Kraken's mission to promote global crypto adoption.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Operating production-grade stateful systems
  • Software engineering in Python, Rust, Go
  • Automating infrastructure or operations
  • Kubernetes experience with stateful workloads
  • Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting
  • Observability, alerting, incident response

Nice-to-have

  • MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis
  • Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, NoSQL databases
  • Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD
  • Query tuning and schema design
  • Data engineering or pipeline technologies

Key Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience operating production-grade systems
  • Solid software engineering skills
  • Practical Kubernetes experience
  • Strong Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting fundamentals
  • Experience with observability, alerting, incident response

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