Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work. The team Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. The AI Infrastructure team sits within the Data organization and is responsible for building, operating, and scaling the systems that power AI agents in production both internal tools and external-facing products. Working closely with the AI and Agent Systems teams, this group ensures that the orchestration, execution, and model-serving layers underpinning agentic workflows are reliable, observable, and built to scale. This team operates at the intersection of data infrastructure and applied AI a space that moves fast and demands engineers who can bring production discipline to emerging technology. You'll partner across Data Engineering, ML, and product-facing teams to harden agent infrastructure and keep it running at the standards our users expect. Importantly, this is a platform engineering team. Beyond operating infrastructure, the team is responsible for building the APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable AI, Data, and Engineering teams to safely and efficiently consume agent infrastructure as a service. Success in this role requires thinking beyond infrastructure operations and toward developer experience, platform adoption, and long-term scalability. Desired Candidate Profile 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a production environment Hands-on experience supporting ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps workflows in production Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, APIs, or SDKs consumed by engineering teams at scale Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, including developer experience, self-service infrastructure, and API-driven platform design Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform Experience with containerization and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes and Docker Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS Strong scripting skills (bash/shell) and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred) Experience designing and operating observability, monitoring, and alerting systems Experience implementing incident response procedures and participating in on-call rotations Strong collaboration skills working across data, AI, and engineering teams High ownership mindset in a fast-moving, high-stakes production environment Nice to haves Experience building or operating infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar) Background in data infrastructure, including familiarity with Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or data lake tooling Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI/ML workloads Exposure to evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale Experience working in fast-moving 0 1 environments or platform-building teams Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or internal platform products with a strong focus on usability and adoption Experience with Cloudflare's cloud platform and product ecosystem, including networking, security, performance, and Zero Trust solutions Company Industry MediaPublishingTVRadioOutdoorDigital Department / Functional Area Engineering Keywords Site Reliability Engineer - AI Agents Get real-time job updates only on our App