Job Description
Kraken's Data Platform team builds the real-time infrastructure that powers decision-making across one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges. This role leads the team responsible for Kraken's streaming and data platform layer — designing systems that move, transform, and serve data in real time.
The opportunity
- Lead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers building Kraken's real-time streaming infrastructure
- Own the architecture and roadmap for high-volume low-frequency data systems, with focus on data stack like Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, RisingWave, Apache Flink
- Design and operate scalable data architecture that serves trading, risk, compliance, analytics and many product teams.
- Drive adoption of AI automation and intelligent workflows — automating data quality checks, pipeline orchestration, anomaly detection, and self-healing infrastructure
- Partner with ML/AI, analytics, and product engineering team...