Site Reliability Engineer, Kraken
Trading Technologies
$117-176k
More information about location
Cryptocurrency exchange
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$117-176k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in a SRE role (DevOps, SRE, etc)
- Experience with high performance, low latency distributed systems (particularly financial)
- Experience with Hashicorp Consul, Nomad, Vault and its PKI features
- Experience with monitoring/alerting (primarily with Prometheus/Grafana) and knowledge of best practices in the area
- Experience with Bash, Python, YAML, Configuration and Secret Management
- Experience with distributed systems and technologies - gRPC & Kafka
- Experience configuring Continuous Integration (CI)
- Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems, shell scripting
- Understand DNS, SSL/TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust
- Understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP and UDP
- Experience in logging, monitoring, tracing e.g. Cloudwatch, Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK)
Desirable
- Familiar with Fix protocol
- Experience with web sockets and Real-Time Market Data feeds
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm Charts
- Understanding of digital currency trading market
What the job involves
- As a key contributor, you'll work independently, collaborating with stakeholders beyond formal management, ensuring the seamless operation, support, and security of our Core Trading production infrastructure
- From monitoring environments to managing releases with Hashicorp Nomad and implementing robust metrics, alerts, and monitoring systems, you'll play a crucial role in the team's success
- Your expertise in improving Developer Tooling, building Docker images, and managing CI pipelines will contribute to the automation of quality testing, while your analytical skills will be essential in identifying and mitigating potential risks of downtime
- Work highly independently, with multiple stakeholders outside of the formal management structure
- Responsible for the operation, support, and security of production infrastructure for Core Trading Services
- Monitor and support Staging and Production environments
- Manage releases using Hashicorp Nomad
- Implement robust metrics, alerts and monitoring of Trading infrastructure
- Improve Developer Tooling, help with building Docker images, manage our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for automating quality testing
- Analyze potential risks of downtime and develop systems that will eliminate the issue
- Support a fully distributed team operating across numerous timezones
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
13% female employees
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company values
- Crypto Conviction
- Assume Best Intent
- Innovative
- Collaborative
- Client Obsessed
- Productively Paranoid
- Globally Inclusive
- Humble
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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