Sr. Site Reliability Engineer CIE

The Team

This is a fully remote role, we will consider applicants based in LATAM. Our Engineering team is having a blast while delivering the most sophisticated crypto‑trading platform out there. Help us continue to define and lead the industry.

As part of Kraken's Core Infrastructure Team, you will work within a world‑class team of engineers building and maintaining Kraken's infrastructure. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will keep one of the fastest growing companies in the world up and available in a 24/7 environment. You will bring your own technical expertise to monitor and support staging and production environments, build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, deployment specifications and generally automate internal processes to empower developers and improve team efficiency.

• Own and operate Kraken’s Core Infrastructure Platform, supporting a highly resilient, low‑latency, distributed exchange environment across on‑prem and cloud.
• Deliver, monitor, and support staging and production systems in a 24/7 environment.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation to ensure the reliability and availability of mission‑critical systems.
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and self‑service platforms to improve developer velocity and autonomy.
• Lead migrations across cloud and on‑prem environments and drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad) and service deployments.
• Implement infrastructure security best practices to ensure availability, integrity, and compliance.
• Operate and optimize distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB) and ingress infrastructure (proxies, CDNs), troubleshooting performance and reliability issues in collaboration with cross‑functional teams.

• 5+ years in SRE, Dev Ops, or backend infrastructure engineering roles.
• 3+ years programming in Rust, Golang, or Python.
• Strong expertise in AWS and cloud infrastructure architecture.
• Deep experience with Docker and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes or Nomad).
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and related tooling (e.g., Vault, Consul, Salt).
• Strong monitoring and observability experience (Grafana, Victoria Metrics, Splunk, Alert Manager).
• Solid Linux systems knowledge, networking fundamentals, and advanced debugging skills.
• Experience implementing secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and Git‑based workflows.
• Strong security mindset with experience applying best practices in complex environments.
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and the ability to operate independently in a fully remote, distributed team environment.

• Strong background in distributed systems and advanced networking concepts.
• Experience with Cloudflare (WAF, caching, Workers) and edge infrastructure.

Unless a specific Final date to receive applications 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.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.