Sr. Staff Core Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

Kraken

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 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

Skills you should HODL

• 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

Nice to have s

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

• Experience orchestrating multiple regional datacenters at scale