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Mid LevelFull-timeTypeScriptPythonRustC#AWSKubernetesTerraformPostgreSQLGoAI
Salary Range
$102,000 - $138,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our Global Platform Engineering Reliability - Observability team at Kraken. This role focuses on contributing to the availability, performance, and scalability of products across Kraken, helping engineering teams get the visibility they need to build and operate reliable services with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
- →Support and implement monitoring and alerting strategy across Kraken’s customer business
- →Define and uphold observability best practices across multiple products and platforms
- →Partner with product teams to implement observability tooling and improve reliability across the organisation
- →Help product teams build best-in-class dashboards for their requirements or bespoke use cases
- →Work with product teams to define and implement meaningful Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
- →Build, tune, and continuously improve alerts and monitors using golden signals
- →Help product teams transition to on-call models by improving signals, alert quality, and operational readiness
- →Improve tooling and self-service capabilities for alerting and monitoring
- →Analyse incident metrics to identify trends and improvement opportunities
- →Manage the cost and usage of our observability tooling stack
- →Contribute to broader platform reliability infrastructure improvements
Requirements
- ✓Solid hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes
- ✓Experience using industry-standard observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Rootly)
- ✓Strong collaboration and communication skills
- ✓Exposure to Python or similar C-based languages
- ✓Previous experience working in small, highly autonomous teams
- ✓Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure in unclear situations
- ✓Proactive learning mindset
- ✓Strong asynchronous written communication
- ✓Autonomy and accountability
Benefits
- ★Work in a certified Great Place to Work
- ★Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7
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