Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2011
₿ Crypto
💸 Finance
💳 Fintech
Crypto • Finance • Fintech
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.
Senior Database Administrator – Core Infrastructure
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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2011
₿ Crypto
💸 Finance
💳 Fintech
Crypto • Finance • Fintech
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.
📋 Description
• Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives. • Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures. • Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows. • Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments. • Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns. • Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments. • Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization. • Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering.
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting. • Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios. • Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar). • Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal). • Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals. • Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale). • Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows. • Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.
🏖️ Benefits
• Paid time off • Flexible working arrangements • Professional development opportunities • Remote work options
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