Kraken is looking for a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - Platforms Orchestration to join our Core Infrastructure team. You will extend and automate our container orchestration platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance, while working in a mission-focused company accelerating the global adoption of crypto for financial freedom and inclusion.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Strong background in Linux, Networking, and Distributed Systems.
- Significant hands-on experience with the 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.
Technical Stack
- Nomad, Vault, Consul
- Terraform, AWS
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Python, Go, Bash
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team, working in a global, remote-first company that hires strictly based on merit.
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates in 70+ countries globally, with a fully remote work mode.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
