Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Payward Services

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

Employment Type Full time

Location Type Remote

Department Engineering SRE / DevOps

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Our remote team has 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.

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Proof of work The team This role is fully remote, with a strong preference for candidates in EU timezones. The Payward Services (PWS) business unit powers Kraken's B2B and institutional product suite, serving external partners and institutional clients under contractual SLAs.

As a Senior SRE, you will partner with PWS development and operations teams to manage infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines, and support operational excellence. You will bring expertise in infrastructure, monitoring, and automation to ensure performant, resilient, and continuously improving services.

The opportunity

Manage and support infrastructure for Payward Services, including Nomad, Kubernetes, databases, and 3rd party system integration

Provide operational support across multiple teams, helping debug issues in staging and production environments

Participate in incident response and post‑incident reviews to improve system resilience

Consult with teams on performance, monitoring, and alerting best practices — with awareness of partner‑facing SLA commitments

Build tooling, automation, and dashboards to improve observability and empower development teams

Maintain and troubleshoot CI pipelines, ensuring reliable and fast build, test, and deployment cycles

Collaborate with developers, QA, and product managers to streamline development and release cycles

Support a fully distributed team operating across multiple timezones

Skills you should HODL

5+ years in DevOps or SRE role

Proficiency with hybrid‑cloud infrastructure environments

Git source version‑control and CI/CD configuration proficiency

Deep understanding of monitoring and alerting systems, preferably Prometheus and Grafana

Ability to debug complex distributed systems, networks, and Linux operating systems issues

Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes a plus)

Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go)

Self‑starter capable of thriving independently and remotely in fast‑paced environments

Nice to haves

Background working with distributed systems and technologies (Kafka, gRPC, Redis, etc.)

Experience operating services with external SLAs or in a B2B/enterprise context

Experience with benchmarking, performance tuning, and identifying system bottlenecks

Proficiency with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and production operations experience

Interest in lower‑level programming languages such as Rust

Experience integrating with APIs (GitLab, Jira, Slack)

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.

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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