kraken.com - Site Reliability Engineer - Cloudflare & Ingress - Core Infrastructure

• 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Cloudflare Engineer, Platform/Infrastructure Engineer, or similar role, with meaningful ownership of edge, CDN, or ingress systems. • Hands-on production experience with Cloudflare, including WAF/Rulesets, Bot Protection, Rate Limiting, DNS, Zones/Accounts administration, and certificate management. • Production experience operating HAProxy (OSS and/or Fusion) or comparable reverse proxies, including TLS termination, TCP passthrough, and proxy-protocol. • Experience with AWS networking primitives: Direct Connect, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), and VPC routing/connectivity patterns. • Working knowledge of service mesh technology (Istio or equivalent) and its role in traffic management and mTLS. • Experience operating Cloudflare Workers and R2 Storage in production for edge compute or storage offload use cases. • Solid understanding of web application security: OWASP Top 10-style attack vectors, credential stuffing, DDoS mitigation strategies, and ACL design. • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and Atlantis, and comfort building self-service automation for other engineering teams. • Solid scripting/programming ability (bash plus at least one of Python or Golang) and comfort using AI tools and agents (e.g., Claude) to accelerate delivery. • Familiarity with observability stacks such as Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Tempo, Splunk or similar tools for edge and network telemetry. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed, and adversarial network traffic issues under pressure. • Solid understanding of HTTP semantics in the browser context: caching behaviour, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), and cookie/session management. • Cloudflare One VPN management experience. • On-premises colocation with clients for ultra-low-latency environments. • Experience troubleshooting low-level Linux performance bottlenecks, NUMA pinning, packet drops. • Strong Kubernetes experience, including deploying and troubleshooting ingress controllers, and hands-on experience building or maintaining Kubernetes Operators/CRDs. • Experience operating Kubernetes Ingress Controllers at scale across AWS and on-premises environments. • Background in highly regulated or financial services environments where change management and audit trails are critical. • 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. • Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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 knowledgeable about crypto. • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.