About Kraken

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. In our first decade, Kraken has risen to become one of the largest, most successful and respected crypto exchanges on the planet.

We are changing the way the world thinks about finance and our range of successful products are playing a critical role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets. We continue to trail-blaze into new territory with the introduction of Kraken Bank, providing a more seamless integration between crypto and the traditional financial system. This makes us the first crypto company (ever) to be awarded a U.S. state banking charter.

Our diverse group of 2,000+ Krakenites are distributed all over the world as part of our 'remote first' culture, united by a shared passion for delighting customers, upholding crypto values and achieving our meaningful mission. We attract people who push themselves to improve, are radically transparent and think differently in order to unlock their potential.

Crypto is a rapidly evolving industry and we’re just getting started. We’re growing fast and you're invited to join the revolution!

About the Role

This is a fully remote role, we will consider applicants based in North America, South America, Asia and EMEA.

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 Frontend SRE Team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers building Kraken's infrastructure. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be keeping 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 specs and generally automate internal processes to empower developers and improve team efficiency.

Responsibilities

Monitor and support Staging and Production environments
Improve Developer Tooling, help with building Docker images, manage our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for automating quality testing
Manage releases using Kubernetes
Implement tooling to keep track of key metrics and generate alerts
Collaborate with Dev, QA, and Product teams, jump in to support and improve development and release cycle
Develop tools and bots to improve and automate internal processes
Support a fully distributed team operating across numerous timezones

Requirements

3+ years in a DevOps role (DevOps, SRE, etc)
1+ years experience with a programming language (NodeJS or Rust)
Extensive experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus
Thorough knowledge of Docker and extensive experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm Charts
Ability to configure and maintain different types of proxy services such as Nginx and Traefik
Proficient in Git source version-control
Passion for improving process and products
Experience configuring Continuous Integration (CI)
Ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a team-based environment
Self-starter, ability to context-switch between various projects, codebases and concepts
Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system
Well-versed in scripting languages, building and administration of Linux
Interest in security and a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the security implications of development decisions

Nice to haves

Passion for open-source and contributing back to the community
Knowledge about Cloudflare Caching, Page Rules and Workers
Experience with Hashicorp Vault and its PKI features
Experience with Kubernetes for Local development tools such as Tilt
Experience with ReactJS and/or NextJS frameworks
Experience with Cloud infrastructure
Experience benchmarking applications and identifying bottlenecks
Experience with Slack, Jira, Google, and/or Gitlab APIs
Experience with monitoring / alerting (primarily with Prometheus / Grafana) and knowledge of best practices in the area
Experience with distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...)

Location Tagging: #US #EU

We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique backgrounds and experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives.

Check out all our open roles at https://www.kraken.com/careers. We’re excited to see what you’re made of.

Learn more about us

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Deadline for applications: 13.07.2022.

Site Reliability Engineer - Frontend Team

Kraken