Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - CIE

Join Our Team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At Kraken, we are building the future of crypto. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a vital part of our Core Infrastructure Team. You will help maintain and improve our infrastructure, ensuring our systems are reliable and available 24/7.

About the Role

This is a fully remote position open to applicants based in LATAM. You will work with a talented team of engineers to support one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Your expertise will help us deliver a sophisticated crypto-trading platform.

What You'll Do

• Own and operate Kraken’s Core Infrastructure Platform, ensuring a resilient, low-latency, distributed exchange environment across on-prem and cloud.
• Monitor and support staging and production systems in a 24/7 environment.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain the reliability of mission-critical systems.
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms to enhance developer efficiency.
• Lead migrations across cloud and on-prem environments, promoting 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 troubleshoot performance issues.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, 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 tools (e.g., Vault, Consul, Salt).
• Strong monitoring and observability experience (Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, AlertManager).
• 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 work independently in a remote team.

Nice to Have

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

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• A fully remote work environment.
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is valued.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed requirements. If you have a strong interest in crypto and the skills we need, we would love to hear from you!