Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering

Building the Future of Crypto 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](https://www.kraken.com/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](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/226090548-How-to-create-an-account-on-Kraken). 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](https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/security-at-kraken), [crypto education](https://blog.kraken.com/category/crypto-education), and [world-class client support](https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/support-at-kraken) through our products like [Kraken Pro](https://pro.kraken.com/), [Desktop](https://www.kraken.com/desktop), [Wallet](https://www.kraken.com/wallet), and [Kraken Futures](https://www.kraken.com/features/futures). **Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!**

### The Opportunity This role is for someone who hasn't left the craft behind, and uses that to manage the space between teams: where product development needs meet infrastructure roadmaps, where compliance and security requirements are anticipated, and where developer pain gets converted into platform investments. You know what matters before anyone tells you. You represent your team's infrastructure needs across the organization and Engineering Leadership trusts you to have it covered. - Own the SRE roadmap end-to-end: set priorities independently, drive execution, and make the team's impact visible across the org - Be the infrastructure voice for your business unit — translate upstream roadmaps into product-specific plans and advocate your team's needs back upstream - Drive compliance, security, and infrastructure topics for your business unit — identify risks early, own the resolution before they escalate - Shape developer productivity: engage regularly with product EMs to surface pain points and lead the initiatives that remove them - Contribute technical credibility to architectural discussions — bring your reliability and operational experience, and carry decisions to completion - Own your business unit's workstream in a company-wide infrastructure migration. This is hands-on technical leadership, not just stakeholder management - Lead a 4–6-person generalist SRE team through 1:1s, performance cycles, and meaningful career development

### Skills you should HODL - Hands-on SRE or infrastructure engineering background — you contribute directly when the situation calls for it - Fluent with cloud-native infrastructure — Kubernetes, observability stacks, CI/CD pipelines - Prior experience managing or leading a small-to-mid-size engineering team, including full performance cycles - Built and owned an SRE or infrastructure roadmap — you set priorities without waiting to be told - Represents technical needs in cross-functional and leadership conversations, including at director level

Kraken (legally Payward, Inc.) is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange that facilitates trading of cryptocurrencies, stocks, futures, and ETFs in most US states. It serves over 10 million clients worldwide with $207 billion in quarterly trading volume and has expanded to tokenized equities for non-US customers.