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THE TEAM:

  • You’ll join a senior team of DBAs and SREs responsible for the database platform that underpins many of Kraken’s most critical services.
  • This group combines deep operational expertise with a platform mindset, designing systems that allow engineering teams to innovate quickly while maintaining strong guarantees around performance, security, and reliability.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

  • Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB 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.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL:

  • 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).

Kraken

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. They aim to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. They're a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

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