Kraken - Senior Database Platform Engineer

• Strong hands-on experience operating production-grade stateful or distributed systems. • Solid software engineering skills in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar, with a clear track record of automating infrastructure or operations work. • Experience deploying and operating tools and services in production. • Practical Kubernetes experience, especially around stateful workloads, upgrades, storage, and failure modes. • Strong Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting fundamentals. • Experience with observability, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvement. • MariaDB / PostgreSQL • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch • MongoDB, ClickHouse, Cassandra, or similar NoSQL / distributed data systems • Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, operators, or other automation-heavy infrastructure patterns • Query tuning, schema design, replication, clustering, or high-availability design • Data engineering or pipeline-adjacent technologies such as CDC, Kafka Connect, Flink, or similar • Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. • Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. • We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. • Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto! • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Assessment results are considered alongside other relevant information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.