Senior Database Administrator
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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.
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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, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.
The opportunity- Scale and tune high‑throughput Maria
DB clusters to support continued 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 our on‑call rotations with a long‑term focus on making on‑call predictable, informed by high‑quality signal and preventative engineering.
- 5+ years operating Maria
DB/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, Proxy
SQL, Max Scale, or similar). - Practical experience with CI/CD, Git Ops, 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 the ability to partner with stakeholders, negotiate long‑term plans, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.
- 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 Git Ops tooling (ArgoCD, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI).
- Exposure to multi‑region or disaster‑recovery designs.
- Interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems.
This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no Final date to receive applications.
Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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