
Senior Database Administrator
Kraken
- Location
- Brazil
- Posted
- Salary Range
- 127k - 203k USD
DBA role at Kraken, optimizing MariaDB clusters, enhancing high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring solutions.
Kraken
DBA role at Kraken, optimizing MariaDB clusters, enhancing high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring solutions.
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Kraken
Join the DBA team at Kraken, a leading crypto exchange, and work on designing and implementing scalable solutions to support customer base. You will be responsible for optimizing MariaDB clusters, enhancing high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring solutions. With expertise in database management, automation, and cloud deployment strategies, you will help development teams improve productivity through better tooling, automation, and best practices. As a remote team member, you will participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support when needed. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support. With a passion for cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies, you will contribute to the future of crypto and blockchain technology.
Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
What makes us different?
Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.
Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.
As a fully remote company, we have 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.
Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!
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The team
Come work with an experienced team for one of the top crypto exchanges in a rapidly evolving space. The DBA team is responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions that allow the company to reliably and securely support our customer base. The role involves a combination of production support, support for other teams, and interesting project work to further scale and solidify the system. You will be uniquely challenged in a space where security, performance, availability, scalability, data integrity and productivity are all paramount to our mission.
The opportunity
Scale and optimize a distributed high-load MariaDB cluster, ensuring high performance and scalability
Enhance and improve high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, and monitoring solutions
Troubleshoot various performance and availability issues across the database and infrastructure stack
Manage database security, patching, and upgrades while ensuring best practices
Bring a DevOps mindset to database operations, implementing automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows
Improve infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies
Help development teams be more productive through better tooling, automation, and best practices
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support when needed
Skills you should HODL
Expert knowledge of MariaDB/MySQL (5+ years) with experience in high-volume production environments, advanced replication schemes, sharding, and tuning
Familiarity with database proxies like HAProxy, ProxySQL, and MaxScale for high availability and load balancing
Strong programming and scripting skills e.g. Bash, Python, Go or similar
Have the right automation mindset and proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gitops, and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
Hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM) and cloud-native best practices
Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/Nomad for managing scalable and resilient database infrastructure
Deep understanding of database security, access control, patching, and compliance best practices
Experience with visualization and DB monitoring stack e.g. Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Consul, Pagerduty, etc
Strong communication skills, strategic thinking, and a team-oriented mindset to help bridge database operations and DevOps workflows
Nice to Haves
Experience implementing GitOps methodologies with GitLab, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
Passion for cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies.
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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.
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.
Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
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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