About The Company

As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto.

Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption.

But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions.

Kraken is backed by investors including, Money Partners Group, Hummingbird Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Digital Currency Group, among others.

"We are empowering people to live simply, efficiently and more connected to others. We put our clients’ best interests first and foremost. They are at the heart of our company and drive everything we do. We believe in having a laser focus when pursuing our strategic goals and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in complete transparency, deep collaboration and we never forget that people come first. Having this mindset allows us to grow and advance at a rate which others cannot." Jesse Powell, CEO of Kraken

Job Short Description

Responsibilities

Be responsible for managing the Linux kernel and operating systems for all our on-premise servers, both from a low-latency performance and security perspective.

• Tune and optimize both the Linux kernel, operating system and associated hardware.
• Work closely with the various SRE/Dev teams to ensure applications run optimally and securely.
• Automate everything from kernel builds and testing, to ‘at scale’ production deployments.
• Integrate kernel and operating system configuration with IaC tooling.
• Improve the current observability, monitoring and alerting associated to your areas of responsibility.
• Work on a common container platform that’s used by SRE/Dev teams.
• Provide architectural input and peer review across multiple teams and exchange services.

Requirements

• • 5+ years of experience working with Linux kernels and operating systems.
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, focussed on automation and performance tuning. Able to squeeze every bit of performance out of the servers our trading engine is running on!
  • A deep understanding of security. You know your way around Linux kernels and how to tweak them to build extremely secure environments.
  • Building automated performance benchmarking, leveraging CI/CD technologies.
  • Knowledge of low-latency networking (Solarflare/Xilinx onload) and knowledge of the network protocols.
  • Strong with scripting languages (Bash, Python)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform/Kubernetes, Ansible/Salt)
  • Experience with containerisation (Docker, KVM)
  • CI/CD & toolchains (Gitlab, make, gcc)
  • Experience with software-defined storage systems (Ceph, Gluster)
  • Knowledge for Cloud Platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud.