Sr. Staff Core Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. The Sr. Staff Core Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for designing and operating the foundational platform that powers all Kraken's infrastructure, with a focus on modernizing the datacenter stack.

Responsibilities:

• Help design and architect Kraken’s OpenStack-based compute platform
• Lead the deployment, configuration, and scaling of OpenStack across multiple datacenters
• Manage, optimize, and maintain Kraken’s OpenStack environments and lifecycle workflows
• Build and evolve bare-metal and Virtual Machines provisioning using OpenStack components
• Help integrate our Kubernetes platform with OpenStack to provide a unified compute foundation
• Partner with networking, security, engineering, platform and SRE teams to define long-term datacenter strategy
• Mentor engineers and contribute to roadmaps for private-cloud and datacenter evolution
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the reliability of the core infrastructure platform

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on OpenStack experience (deployment, configuration, troubleshooting), at scale
• Expert-level proficiency of OpenStack architecture, reliability, optimization, and operations
• Proficient with Openstack's Nova, Ironic, Neutron for host provisioning, networking and virtual machines management at scale in on-premises datacenters
• Strong background in Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
• Experience with automation tools (Salt, Terraform) and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Strong security mindset with experience enforcing best practices in complex environments
• Proficiency in two or more languages: Python, Go, Bash
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with ability to influence technical direction
• Comfortable working independently in a highly distributed, remote-first team
• Self-starter able to navigate multiple projects, domains, and problems
• Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters running on top of Openstack
• Experience orchestrating multiple regional datacenters at scale