Senior Database Administrator

Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world‑class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world. Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission.

We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here. As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry‑leading security, crypto education, and world‑class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

You’ll join a senior team of DBAs and SREs responsible for the database platform that underpins many of Kraken’s most critical services. This group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset, designing systems that allow engineering teams to innovate quickly while maintaining strong guarantees around performance, security, and reliability. The team is entering an exciting phase of evolution as Kraken continues to expand globally.

Over the next year, we are focused on strengthening our operational excellence, evolving our database environments to support significant future scale, and increasing automation and self‑service so that database operations become more efficient, s is not a traditional “keep the lights on” DBA team. Our work centers on scaling distributed Maria

DB environments, shaping reliable patterns for high‑traffic systems, and transforming operational knowledge into automated, auditable workflows that uplift the entire engineering organization. It’s a collaborative, high‑ownership environment where clarity, rigor, and continuous improvement are part of how we operate. If you enjoy building robust distributed systems and designing platforms that make engineering teams faster and safer by default, you’ll find a strong home here.

• Scale and tune high‑throughput Maria
  
  DB 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.

• 5+ years operating Maria
  
  DB/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, Proxy
  
  SQL, Max Scale, or similar).
• Practical experience with CI/CD, Git Ops, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal).
• Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with containers and orchestration…