About Kraken

As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world.

About the Role

This role will help scale the data systems Kraken currently utilizes to support more activity through the platform as well as help architect out the next gen data architecture

Responsibilities

• Scaling a high load Postgres cluster making every and all optimizations necessary that are available to support higher throughput.
• Administrating and tuning Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, Apache Druid, Presto, and other data systems.
• Creating many, meaningful benchmarks to find any areas inside Postgres and/or other data systems that would increase performance.
• Architect kraken’s next evolution of data infrastructure
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Requirements

• Expert knowledge of open source SQL databases, in particular Postgres.
• Understanding of data models, structured data, replication, sharding and backup strategies for scaling and productionising the above.
• Strong working knowledge of Apache Kafka.
• Experience running Postgres on dedicated hardware.
• AWS cloud engineering expertise across VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, EMR.
• Extremely proficient with best security practices

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of at least one of: SycllaDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra, FoundationDB, Presto, Elasticseach, and / or Apache Druid.
• Kubernetes experience and / or certification

Location Tagging: #US #EU 

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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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