Kraken
Senior Database Administrator
Kraken
$127k - $203k
Remote, APAC, Australia, LATAM, United States
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MariaDB
MySQL
Bash
DevOps

Senior Database Administrator

Overview

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.

Job Description

Kraken is a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. We are committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Responsibilities

  • - Scale and optimize a distributed high-load MariaDB cluster, ensuring high performance and scalability
  • - Enhance and improve high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, and monitoring solutions
  • - Troubleshoot various performance and availability issues across the database and infrastructure stack
  • - Manage database security, patching, and upgrades while ensuring best practices
  • - Bring a DevOps mindset to database operations, implementing automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows
  • - Improve infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies
  • - Help development teams be more productive through better tooling, automation, and best practices
  • - Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support when needed

Required Skills

  • - Expert knowledge of MariaDB/MySQL (5+ years) with experience in high-volume production environments, advanced replication schemes, sharding, and tuning
  • - Familiarity with database proxies like HAProxy, ProxySQL, and MaxScale for high availability and load balancing
  • - Strong programming and scripting skills e.g. Bash, Python, Go or similar
  • - Have the right automation mindset and proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gitops, and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
  • - Hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM) and cloud-native best practices
  • - Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/Nomad for managing scalable and resilient database infrastructure
  • - Deep understanding of database security, access control, patching, and compliance best practices
  • - Experience with visualization and DB monitoring stack e.g. Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Consul, Pagerduty, etc
  • - Strong communication skills, strategic thinking, and a team-oriented mindset to help bridge database operations and DevOps workflows

Benefits

  • - Bonus program
  • - Equity program
  • - Wellness allowance
  • - Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) [US Only]
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About the company

Kraken

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