Senior Database Platform Engineer
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KrakenCrypto, Blockchain
United StatesFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonElasticSearchKafkaKubernetesMongoDBCassandraClickhouseGoRedisRustCI/CDLinuxTerraform
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience operating production-grade stateful or distributed systems.
- Solid software engineering skills in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar, with a clear track record of automating infrastructure or operations work.
- Experience deploying and operating tools and services in production.
- Practical Kubernetes experience, especially around stateful workloads, upgrades, storage, and failure modes.
- Strong Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting fundamentals.
- Experience with observability, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvement.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.
- Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB and other NoSQL databases with tight SLAs.
- Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.
- Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, raise documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.
- Implement, deploy, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational leverage.
- Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data access patterns, query optimization, schema design, operational readiness, and safe adoption of shared infrastructure.
- Improve observability, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, and operational reviews so that systems are easier to understand and incidents are less likely to happen.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
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