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.

Proof of work The team

Our product SRE teams are embedded inside Kraken's engineering organizations - close enough to the product to know when something matters before it becomes an incident, senior enough in infrastructure to do something about it. We are generalist teams: we own reliability, developer experience, and the long arc of infrastructure evolution for the products we support.

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 turns 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 escape
• 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

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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