Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

As an Infrastructure Engineer on the Core Infrastructure – Platforms team at Kraken, you'll help evolve and scale the Kubernetes platform that powers all engineering across Kraken's on-premises and cloud infrastructure. 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.

What you'll do

• Gain hands-on experience across Kubernetes cluster operations, deployments, networking, and scalability
• Help build and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple datacenters
• Triage and organize infrastructure issues, learning our systems and best practices along the way
• Work with senior engineers to solve complex problems and reduce operational burden from the broader team
• Build automation and tooling to improve team efficiency and reduce toil
• Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability

What you bring

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role
• Strong passion for providing technical guidance to stakeholders, with excellent communication skills and a customer-focused approach to resolving Kubernetes-related requests and enabling engineering teams to succeed
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Strong Linux systems knowledge: comfortable at the shell, understanding processes, networking basics, file systems, and permissions
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, ports, IP addressing, basic routing, TLS, and PKI concepts
• Understanding of Kubernetes internals (control plane, scheduling, networking, storage) and concepts
• Familiarity with orchestration or advanced Kubernetes networking such as Cilium
• Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value
• Scripting or programming experience in Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages

Nice to have

• Working experience running Kubernetes clusters
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or on-premises infrastructure
• Knowledge of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with storage systems such as Ceph or Rook

About Kraken

Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. Founded in 2011, Kraken offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services for both individual investors and institutional clients. Kraken is part of Payward, which operates multiple financial infrastructure platforms including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, and CF Benchmarks.