Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Core Infrastructure – Platforms team is responsible for the foundational platform that powers all Kraken on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
We design and operate the systems that enable all engineering at Kraken; bringing together compute, storage, orchestration, and more into a unified, reliable platform. You’ll join a senior group of engineers working closely with SRE, Networking, and Security to deliver a stable, scalable, and secure foundation for all workloads.
We’re looking for someone to help evolve and scale our Kubernetes platform as a core part of our next-generation infrastructure.
The opportunity
Gain hands-on experience across Kubernetes cluster operations, deployments, networking, and scalability
Help build, and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple datacenters
Triage and organize infrastructure issues, learning our systems and best practices along the way
Work with senior engineers to solve complex problems, reducing operational burden from the broader team
Build automation and tooling to improve team efficiency and reduce toil
Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability
What you bring
Proven experience of 3+ year of working as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer or similar roles
Strong passion for providing technical guidance to stakeholders, with excellent communication skills and a customer-focused approach to resolving Kubernetes-related requests, removing blockers, and enabling engineering teams to succeed
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
Strong Linux systems knowledge: comfortable at the shell, understanding processes, networking basics, file systems, permissions
Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, ports, IP addressing, basic routing, TLS, PKI concepts
Understanding of Kubernetes internals (control plane, scheduling, networking, storage) and concepts
Familiarity with orchestration or advanced Kubernetes networking (Cilium)
Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value
Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
Nice to haves
Working experience running Kubernetes clusters
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or on-premises infrastructure
Knowledge of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
Experience with storage systems (e.g., Ceph/Rook)
Published on: 8/12/2026
Kraken
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, we're one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more.
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