Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will partner with development teams to manage infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines, and support operational excellence across Growth.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support infrastructure for Growth teams, including Nomad, Hashistack, databases, and any other underlying systems
• Maintain and troubleshoot GitLab CI pipelines, ensuring reliable and fast build, test, and deployment cycles
• Provide operational support across Onboarding, Acquire, and Engage teams, helping debug issues in staging and production environments
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to improve system resilience
• Consult with teams on performance, monitoring, and alerting best practices
• Build tooling, automation, and dashboards to improve observability and empower development teams
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and product managers to streamline development and release cycles
• Support a fully distributed team operating across multiple timezones

Requirements:

• 5+ years in a DevOps or SRE role
• Strong experience managing infrastructure with Consul, Vault, and Terraform
• Proficiency with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and experience operating them in production
• Proficient in Git source version-control and CI/CD configuration
• Deep understanding of monitoring and alerting systems, preferably Prometheus and Grafana
• Ability to debug complex issues involving distributed systems, networks, and Linux operating systems
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes a plus)
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go)
• Self-starter with the ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple teams and switch context across projects
• Interest in security and consideration of the security implications of development and operational decisions
• Experience with benchmarking, performance tuning, and identifying system bottlenecks
• Familiarity with incident management best practices and tooling
• Interest in lower-level programming languages such as Rust
• Experience integrating with APIs (GitLab, Jira, Slack)
• Background working with distributed systems and technologies (Kafka, gRPC, Redis, etc.)
• Passion for building reliable, user-facing systems that scale