Kraken

Data Platform Engineering Manager

Kraken

Kraken is your bridge to the world of crypto.

Competitive Salary

London, United Kingdom (Onsite)

Data

Senior

Last updated 2026-04-28T23:05:48.572Z

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About the role

Overview

Lead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers building Kraken's real-time streaming infrastructure, owning the architecture and roadmap for high-volume low-frequency data systems.

Skills

Leadership Machine Learning Data Analysis AI Event-Driven Architecture Data Studio BigQuery Communication Data Analysis Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Candidate requirements

These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.

  • 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems — with at least 3 years managing engineering teams
  • Experience and knowledge of building data-lakes in AWS (i.e. Spark, Athena, Iceberg, Parquet, Presto), including data modeling, data quality best practices, and self-service tooling.

About Kraken

Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure crypto platforms. Our mission is to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Globally, Kraken clients trade more than 200 digital assets and 6 different national currencies, including GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, CHF, and AUD.

Kraken was founded in 2011 and was one of the first platforms to offer spot trading with margin, parachain auctions, staking, regulated derivatives and index services.

Trusted by over 10 million individuals, traders and institutions around the world, Kraken offers professional 24/7/365 client support along with one of the fastest, most performant trading platforms available. Kraken has set the industry standard for transparency and client trust, and was the first crypto platform to conduct Proof of Reserves audits.

In 2024, Kraken ranked 12th in Newsweek's Global Top 100 list of Most Loved Workplaces, recognizing how the platform offers one of the world's most compelling employment opportunities.

Risk Disclosure: https://k.xyz/3LO7ofe

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