Senior MariaDB Platform Engineer – Global Scale

Kraken; España; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kraken is expanding its global database platform and seeks a senior MariaDB/MySQL DBA to scale high‑throughput clusters, enhance availability, and automate operations.

You will design reliable backup and DR strategies, improve observability, and work with containerized deployments and GitOps practices to empower engineering teams.

Join a collaborative team that values ownership, rigorous standards, and continuous improvement as Kraken builds open finance infrastructure.

Formación

• 5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in production with tuning and replication.
• Strong knowledge of high-availability patterns and failure scenarios.
• Experience with database proxies and load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar).
• Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform experience ideal).
• Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale).
• Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.
• Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and readiness for incident response.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders, write formal documentation and tie success to specific metrics and KPIs.

Responsabilidades

• Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support continued global expansion and new product initiatives.
• Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures.
• Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows.
• Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments.
• Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns.
• Contribute to modern platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments.
• Partner with service teams to drive better performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization.
• Participate in our on-call rotations with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable, informed by high-quality signal and preventative engineering.

Conocimientos

MariaDB/MySQL

High availability

Replication

CI/CD

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Containerization

Security best practices

Observability

Communication & collaboration

Herramientas

HAProxy

ProxySQL

MaxScale

Terraform

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Kraken is expanding its global database platform and seeks a senior MariaDB/MySQL DBA to scale high‑throughput clusters, enhance availability, and automate operations.

You will design reliable backup and DR strategies, improve observability, and work with containerized deployments and GitOps practices to empower engineering teams.

Join a collaborative team that values ownership, rigorous standards, and continuous improvement as Kraken builds open finance infrastructure.