Site Reliability Engineer - Blockchain Infrastructure

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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 is remote.


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.


Responsibilities

  • Build, improve, maintain, and upgrade clusters of dozens of blockchain daemons/consensus nodes in a scalable and highly redundant fashion
  • Deploy testnet & mainnet blockchain daemons/consensus nodes, monitor proactively for performance bottlenecks and unusual behavior, optimize performance in production
  • Develop systems for rolling out patches/updates/infrastructure in an automated fashion
  • Provide blockchain as a service to the crypto gateway engineering team
  • Implement robust metrics and monitoring of blockchain infrastructure
  • Write good quality policies, procedures and technical documentation
  • Nurture security awareness in the organization, produce material to support this, and relate this to the current threat landscape

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in dev-ops
  • Code (or script) in at least one modern application development or utility language;
  • Experience operating Kubernetes
  • Experience with administrating Linux systems and with configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, Docker)
  • Experience with cloud platform services and tooling (GCP, AWS)
  • Experience with metrics collection and monitoring
  • Working understanding of TCP/IP network stack
  • Online availability for unforeseen remotely-fixable issues
  • Self-motivated & self-organized
  • Use Source Code Management and Document Management Systems to organize business function tasks and publish relevant material;
  • Understand DNS, SSL/ TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.
  • Desire to make the best trading platform out there
  • Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
  • Fluent English language skills is required

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