Senior Database Administrator at Kraken

This role is for a seasoned database specialist with at least five years of experience managing high-traffic MariaDB or MySQL environments. It focuses on engineers who prefer building automated platforms and distributed systems over manual maintenance. **What makes it worth a look...** Kraken offers a rare chance to work in a fully remote environment with widespread global support across several European and APAC countries. You will be transitioning the company's database infrastructure toward modern Kubernetes and GitOps workflows, giving you significant technical influence over their scaling strategy. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have mastered MariaDB replication, tuning, and load-balancing with tools like ProxySQL or HAProxy. * Work comfortably with Terraform and Kubernetes to manage infrastructure as code. * Can troubleshoot complex failure scenarios in distributed database clusters. * Enjoy scripting in Python or Rust to replace manual operational tasks with automation.