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.
What makes us different?
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.
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, Kraken NFT, and Kraken Futures.
Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!
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The team
Come work with an experienced team for one of the top crypto exchanges in a rapidly evolving space. The DBA team is responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions that allow the company to reliably and securely support our customer base. The role involves a combination of production support, support for other teams, and interesting project work to further scale and solidify the system. You will be uniquely challenged in a space where security, performance, availability, scalability, data integrity and productivity are all paramount to our mission.
The opportunity
Scaling a distributed high load MariaDB cluster making every and all performance optimizations necessary to improve throughput and scalability
Enhance and improve our high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery and monitoring solutions
Troubleshoot various performance / availability issues
Manage database security, patching and upgrades
Help the development teams be more productive
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support
Skills you should HODL
Expert knowledge of MariaDB / MySQL (5+ years experience)
Experience with common mysql db tools such as Percona toolkit, Openark, Sysbench
Significant production experience in high volume situations dealing with advanced replication schemes, sharding, and performance optimization
Server management, maintenance and backup strategies
Experience running Mysql on dedicated hardware and cloud instances
AWS cloud engineering expertise across VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3
Extremely proficient with best security practices
Scripting experience with two or more of the following languages bash, python, go, ruby and/or perl
Version control with the main tools gitlab, github, and/or bitbucket
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes/Nomad
Familiarity with monitoring/discovery/management solutions such as Grafana, Prometheus, Consul, Terraform
Experience with proxies such as Haproxy, Proxysql, Maxscale
Great communication skills
Strong attention to detail and dependable/responsible in a mission critical environment
Strategic thinker that is able to weigh trade-offs and prioritize
Excellent team player that cares about people and their success
Interested in the cryptocurrency space
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Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable 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 knowledgable about crypto!
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.
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