Senior MariaDB Engineer for Global FinTech Platform

Kraken; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a global, scalable database platform. You will join a senior team of DBAs and SREs to evolve distributed MariaDB environments and enable engineering teams with reliable, auditable workflows.

We seek a DBA with 5+ years in high-volume MariaDB/MySQL, strong HA patterns, and experience with proxies, CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes. On-call rotations and security-minded operations are part of the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and failure scenarios.
• Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale, or similar).
• Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform ideal).
• Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes workloads at scale).
• Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows.
• Observability expertise: monitoring, alerting hygiene, and incident readiness.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders, and documenting KPI-driven success.

Responsibilities

• Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support global expansion and new product initiatives.
• Strengthen high-availability, DR, and backup approaches with solid design and tested procedures.
• Reduce manual work by building automation and reproducible database workflows.
• Improve observability and alert quality across environments with meaningful metrics.
• Enhance database security through robust access controls and upgrade practices.
• Contribute to platform initiatives including containers and IaC workflows.
• Partner with service teams to improve performance patterns and database hygiene.
• Participate in on-call rotations with a focus on predictable, well-informed incidents.

Skills

MariaDB/MySQL production

High availability patterns

CI/CD & GitOps

Kubernetes at scale

Security & access control

Observability & incident readiness

Communication & collaboration

Tools

HAProxy

ProxySQL

MaxScale

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a global, scalable database platform. You will join a senior team of DBAs and SREs to evolve distributed MariaDB environments and enable engineering teams with reliable, auditable workflows.

We seek a DBA with 5+ years in high-volume MariaDB/MySQL, strong HA patterns, and experience with proxies, CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes. On-call rotations and security-minded operations are part of the role.