Senior Database Platform Engineer

Kraken

The team

Core Infrastructure Data Systems builds and runs the shared data systems that other engineering teams rely on to ship production services safely and quickly, and scale them globally.

We operate technologies such as MariaDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and adjacent tooling with a very high operational bar.

This team is not only responsible for keeping critical systems healthy. We also build the abstractions, guardrails, and automation that let internal teams provision resources, and evolve their data access patterns. We work closely with our internal customers and aim to stay ahead of their needs.

We are hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help us operate and evolve this platform.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who is comfortable owning production-grade stateful systems, writing software to remove toil, improving observability and incident prevention, and partnering directly with other engineers on data-system design and performance.

The opportunity

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.

• Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB and other NoSQL databases with tight SLAs.

• Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.

• Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, raise documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.

• Implement, deploy, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational leverage.

• Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data access patterns, query optimization, schema design, operational readiness, and safe adoption of shared infrastructure.

• Improve observability, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, and operational reviews so that systems are easier to understand and incidents are less likely to happen.

• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.