Building the Future of Crypto
Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values. We accelerate global adoption of crypto, creating financial freedom and inclusion for all. The Krakenites are located in 70+ countries and speak over 50 languages.
The Team
Our product SRE teams are embedded inside Kraken's engineering organizations, close enough to the product to know when something matters before it becomes an incident. We own reliability, developer experience, and the long arc of infrastructure evolution for the products we support.
The Opportunity
Own the SRE roadmap end‑to‑end: set priorities independently, drive execution, and make the team's impact visible across the org.
Be the infrastructure voice for your business unit—translate upstream roadmaps into product‑specific plans and advocate your team's needs back upstream.
Drive compliance, security, and infrastructure topics for your business unit—identify risks early, own the resolution before they escalated.
Shape developer productivity: engage regularly with product EMs to surface pain points and lead initiatives that remove them.
Contribute technical credibility to architectural discussions—bring your reliability and operational experience, and carry decisions to completion.
Own your business unit's workstream in a company‑wide infrastructure migration. This is hands‑on technical leadership, not just stakeholder management.
Lead a 4–6 person generalist SRE team through 1:1s, performance cycles, and meaningful career development.
Skills You Should HODL
Hands‑on SRE or infrastructure engineering background—contribute directly when the situation calls for it.
Fluent with cloud‑native infrastructure—Kubernetes, observability stacks, CI/CD pipelines.
Prior experience managing or leading a small‑to‑mid‑size engineering team, including full performance cycles.
Built and owned an SRE or infrastructure roadmap—set priorities without waiting to be told.
Represent technical needs in cross‑functional and leadership conversations, including at director level.
Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
We may ask candidates to complete job‑related skills or work‑style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
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