Senior Data Infrastructure SRE

Unchain Data; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Data Infrastructure to design, build, and operate the foundational data platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data services across our lakehouse architecture.

You will implement IaC, manage real-time streaming with Kafka and Debezium, and provide BI tooling support while maintaining security and RBAC across multi-tenant environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as SRE/Infrastructure/Data Infra.
• Experience with Kafka, Flink, and Debezium for real-time data processing.
• Hybrid multi-tenant cloud systems on AWS.
• IaC tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis.
• Containerization/orchestration using Kubernetes, Nomad, or Docker.
• Scripting: Bash or Python; CI/CD familiarity.
• Data infra tech: Airflow, Spark, databases, BI tooling.
• Strong problem-solving and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data infrastructure for 10+ business units.
• Develop IaC to provision on-prem and AWS.
• Develop automation scripts for ops tasks.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for data infra.
• Monitor, alerting, and incident response; on-call.
• Manage real-time streaming with Kafka, Debezium.
• Use Kubernetes for deployment and scaling.
• Collaborate with data engineers and analysts.
• Document architecture and best practices.
• Support AI/ML teams infra requests.

Skills

Kafka

Flink

Debezium

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

Atlantis

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

RBAC

Security

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Atlantis

Kubernetes

Docker

Airflow

Spark

Debezium

Kafka

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Data Infrastructure to design, build, and operate the foundational data platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data services across our lakehouse architecture.

You will implement IaC, manage real-time streaming with Kafka and Debezium, and provide BI tooling support while maintaining security and RBAC across multi-tenant environments.