Europe•United Arab Emirates•Ireland•Romania•Cyprus•Switzerland•Portugal•Lithuania•South Africa•Czech Republic
Remote
Senior
Full Time
MariaDBMySQLdatabase administrationSREautomationinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformKubernetesCI/CDGitOps
Requirements
- •5+ years operating MariaDB/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, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar)
- •Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal)
- •Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals
- •Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale)
- •Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows
- •Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response
- •Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long-term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs
What You'll Do
- •Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support 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 on-call rotations with a focus on making on-call predictable and informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering
Nice to Have
- •Experience with SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs
- •Strong scripting or programming ability (Python or Rust preferred) used to build automation and internal tools
- •Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- •Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery designs
- •Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems
About Kraken
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that provides parachain auctions, staking, and index services.
San Francisco, CA
1000 - 5000
Finance