Site Reliability Engineer - Banking

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About Kraken

As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world.

About the bank

Kraken’s mission is to promote the adoption of digital assets for financial freedom. Kraken Bank will further that mission by providing a more seamless integration between crypto and the traditional financial system. This means a better client experience.

About the role 

This is a fully remote role, we will consider applicants based in North America, South America and EMEA and APAC. 
Our Engineering team is having a blast while delivering the most sophisticated crypto-trading platform and bank out there. Help us continue to define and lead the industry. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Kraken, you'll be tasked with keeping one of the fastest growing companies in the world up and available in a 24/7 environment. Kraken is growing at an extremely rapid pace along with the entire cryptocurrency industry, and if you like hard challenges and learning, look no further as this is the role for you!

Responsibilities

  • Take a relentless approach on keeping availability at Kraken as high as possible (identifying bottlenecks before they arise)
  • Deploy and maintain production / non-production services
  • Enable software engineers to deploy their services rapidly and securely
  • Oncall rotation with a focus on toil identification and reduction

    • Requirements

  • 3 to 5+ years in a DevOps role (DevOps, SRE, etc)
  • 3 to 5+ years experience in managing resources of a major Public Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Battle-hardened experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting and knowledge of best practices in the area
  • Experience in modern CI/CD systems (Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Flux)
  • Experience benchmarking applications and identifying bottlenecks
  • Experience with distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...)
  • Confidence in writing scripts using at least one of the industry standard scripting/programming languages (Bash, Python or Golang)
  • Confidence in writing desired state configuration (eg: HCL2, K8s YAML)
  • Confidence in writing configuration templates in Terraform, Helm and/or Kustomize
  • Solid practical experience with Terraform
  • Security first approach
  • Self starter

    • Nice to haves

  • Passion for open-source and contributing back to the community
  • Experience in working with the Hashistack (Terraform, Vault, Packer, Nomad, Consul)
  • Experience in Argo Workflows
  • Software Engineering background (Golang, Rust)

    • You'll be:

  • A part of a rapidly growing team within the business that's keeping one of the newest Bank in the US running
  • A part of a huge, globally distributed family of like-minded individuals
  • Using the latest and greatest tools and technologies as BAU
  • Exposed to Kraken's Security comes first approach
  • Working on a cutting edge Kubernetes stack
    • Location Tagging: #US #EU #APAC #Canada #Southamerica #EMEA

    We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique and diverse experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives, regardless of their background. 

    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. 

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