Lead Platform Engineer - Solutions

As the Lead, you will manage people across the US and EU, as well as coordinate with your APAC counterpart, delivery management, and global Platform leadership to ensure a smooth process for just-in-time Kraken app delivery, champion automation, and solve unique client requirements to ensure networking, regulatory, data safety, and other needs are met.

What You’ll Do: Technical Leadership

• Work closely with the APAC Solutions lead, Director, Heads of Platform Engineering and Client Engineering to define strategic objectives and team direction
• Manage team priorities and ensure initiatives are completed within deadlines
• Work with Client Engineering and pre-Sales teams to support client use cases and integrations, with a continuous improvement workstream to streamline and automate app builds

• Provide production support for highly-available, large-scale internet-facing distributed systems People Management

• Line manage 7-10 Platform Engineers in Solutions team across the US and EU, and co-manage the global, follow-the-sun team and pipeline to support new client infrastructure builds
• Set clear performance expectations and regularly review individual and team performance, offering actionable insights and constructive feedback to support and grow team members
• Lead a strong team culture with open communication, trust, and inclusive team environment

• Participate in Platform Engineering leadership and org-wide efforts as well as setting high standards for team health, code hygiene, and ways of working Technical Delivery

• Deliver technical improvements such as small features and bug fixes

• Support team delivery through code reviews, technology research and architectural guidance Technologies We Use

• Build platform tooling and automation primarily in Python and Django
• CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI; GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
• Kubernetes-based environments - we use Amazon EKS
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• Excellent communication skills, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries
• Demonstrable impact working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand and deliver impactful projects or improve KPIs
• Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale
• Meticulous organisation and planning skills
• Experience of mentoring and coaching highly-autonomous teams
• Proficiency with AWS. We use a lot of different AWS services and including Amazon EKS in production
• Knowledge of Platform Engineering best-practices, including security, CI/CD tooling and methodologies

What Will Help:

• Experience working on SaaS platforms, including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams
• Proactive, problem-solving orientation with an interest in continual improvement
• Prior experience in globally distributed teams

Why you’ll love it here:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Paid time off - we know working hard means also being able to recharge as needed, we trust our employees to get the work done and take the time they need.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Flexible working environment: you need to shift around your schedule? You do you, we genuinely believe in work/life balance.
• Equity Options: every Kraken employee owns part of the business. We’re a team, working together towards huge goals. Every person is crucial to our success, you should be rewarded as such.
• Modern office or co-working spaces depending on location.
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Our Global Platform Engineering Solutions team builds custom integration solutions with our clients and automates the build of the main Kraken Customer application.