Sr. Core Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

Position: Sr. Staff Core Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

Location

United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Ireland, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Romania, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Lithuania, Switzerland, Mexico

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Engineering, SRE / Devops

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.

What makes us different?

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.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

The Core Infrastructure – Platforms team is responsible for the foundational platform that powers all Kraken on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

We design and operate the systems that enable all engineering at Kraken; bringing together compute, storage, orchestration, and more into a unified reliable platform. 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.

The opportunity

Help design and architect Kraken’s Open Stack‑based compute platform

Lead the deployment, configuration, and scaling of Open Stack across multiple datacenters

Manage, optimize, and maintain Kraken’s Open Stack environments and lifecycle workflows

Build and evolve bare‑metal and Virtual Machines provisioning using Open Stack components

Help integrate our Kubernetes platform with Open Stack 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

Skills you should HODL

7+ years of hands‑on Open Stack experience (deployment, configuration, troubleshooting), at scale

Expert‑level proficiency of Open Stack 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

Nice to have’s

Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters running on top of Openstack

Experience orchestrating multiple regional datacenters at scale

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