Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
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Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Join our engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer focused on the shared telemetry platform that helps teams understand, operate, and improve production services. You will work across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and profiling systems that make our platform observable at scale.
As a member of the Telemetry team, you will help keep the systems that collect, store, query, and route operational data reliable and scalable. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys distributed systems, automation, observability, and solving production problems.
You will work with Software Engineers, Platform teams, Security Engineers, and SREs to improve operational practices and support mission-critical services. The role includes incident response, on-call, platform improvements, and helping teams use telemetry effectively.
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.
Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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 knowledgeable about crypto.
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