Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure crypto platforms. Our mission is to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusio…
Job Overview
Building the Future of Crypto Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. 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.
Key Responsibilities
You’ll join a senior group of engineers working closely with SRE, Networking, and Security to deliver a stable, scalable, and secure foundation for all workloads. We’re looking for someone to help modernize our datacenter stack and lead the buildout of the next-generation compute platform that powers all on-premises infrastructure. This is a Staff-level role with deep technical ownership, architectural influence, and hands-on responsibility.
Help design and architect Kraken’s OpenStack-based compute platform
Lead the deployment, configuration, and scaling of OpenStack across multiple datacenters
Manage, optimize, and maintain Kraken’s OpenStack environments and lifecycle workflows
Build and evolve bare-metal and Virtual Machines provisioning using OpenStack components
Help integrate our Kubernetes platform with OpenStack to provide a unified compute foundation
Partner with networking, security, engineering, platform and SRE teams to define long-term datacenter strategy
Mentor engineers and contribute to roadmaps for private-cloud and datacenter evolution
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the reliability of the core infrastructure platform
Required Qualifications
7+ years of hands-on OpenStack experience (deployment, configuration, troubleshooting), at scale
Expert-level proficiency of OpenStack architecture, reliability, optimization, and operations
Proficient with Openstack's Nova, Ironic, Neutron for host provisioning, networking and virtual machines management at scale in on-premises datacenters
Strong background in Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
Experience with automation tools (Salt, Terraform) and infrastructure-as-code practices
Strong security mindset with experience enforcing best practices in complex environments
Proficiency in two or more languages: Python, Go, Bash
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with ability to influence technical direction
Comfortable working independently in a highly distributed, remote-first team
Self-starter able to navigate multiple projects, domains, and problems
