Sr. Staff Core Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

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Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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.

• 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

• 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

• Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters running on top of Openstack

• Experience orchestrating multiple regional datacenters at scale

Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Please note, 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.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

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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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