Data Platform Engineering Manager
Skills
About This Role
Overview
- Building the Future of Crypto
- Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
- What makes us different?
- Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values.
- As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
- For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.
- Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission.
- We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app.
- Learn how to create a Kraken account here.
- As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.
- Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space.
- Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.
- Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!
- Proof of work
- The team
- Kraken's Data Platform team builds the real-time infrastructure that powers decision-making across one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges.
- We operate at the intersection of streaming data, large-scale platform engineering, and AI-driven automation — processing billions of events daily across trading, compliance, and product systems.
- 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.
- You'll own the architecture around stream processing (RisingWave, Flink), drive adoption of AI-powered automation and workflows across the data stack, and build the platform primitives that the rest of engineering depends on.
- 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 serve 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 teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their work
- Evolve Kraken's data-lake and warehouse architecture to support both batch and streaming workloads seamlessly
- Set technical direction for the team — balancing reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency at scale
- Hire, mentor, and retain top-tier platform engineers; build a culture of ownership and technical excellence
Skills You Should HODL
- 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.
- Strong expertise in building and operating real-time data at scale including Kafka, Spark Streaming, Debezium, and CDC pipelines.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups — aligning platform investments with the needs of product, finance, compliance, analytics, and other teams
- Strong communicator — able to explain risks, trade-offs, and roadmap decisions to both senior technical audiences and non-specialist stakeholders.
- Experience designing or adopting AI/ML-powered automation in data workflows — pipeline orchestration, intelligent monitoring, automated remediation, or LLM-integrated tooling
- Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java in a production data platform context
- Solid understanding of cloud-native data infrastructure (AWS preferred — Glue, Athena, S3, EMR, Lambda, or equivalents)
- Track record of managing, recruiting, and developing high-performing remote engineering teams
- Ability to translate long-term platform vision into executable quarterly roadmaps
- Servant-leadership style — you coach, unblock, and grow your engineers
- AI-ready to 10X the team efficiency and overall output.
- Nice to haves
- Experience with RisingWave and/or Clickhouse specifically — either in production or in serious evaluation
- Familiarity with LLM-based agents or AI workflow frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestration)
- Background in cryptocurrency, trading systems, or high-throughput financial data
- Experience building self-service data platform tooling for internal engineering consumers
- Contributions to open-source streaming or data infrastructure projects
- *Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.*
- *Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.*
- *We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.*
- Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives.
- We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job.
- We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
- We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.
- These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions.
- Assessment results are considered alongside other relevant information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.
- Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
- Stay in the know
- Follow us on Twitter
- Learn on the Kraken Blog
- Connect on LinkedIn
Your resume, rewritten
for this exact role.
Sign up free — Base Career tailors your CV to this job description in 60 seconds.
01 / 05
Resume Tailored to This Job
Your keywords, structure, and story — rewritten to match this exact role and pass ATS filters.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
02 / 05
Cover Letter for This Role, Done
Job-specific cover letters written in Gulf professional tone — ready in seconds, not hours.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
03 / 05
See How Well You Fit This Role
AI match score with clear reasons — know your fit before investing time in the application.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
04 / 05
Apply in One Click
Autofill any application form on Workday, LinkedIn, Bayt, Greenhouse — with your tailored content.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
05 / 05
Track It. Follow Up at the Right Time.
Visual pipeline for every application with AI-timed follow-up reminders so nothing slips.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
Similar Jobs
Senior Engineer - Data Platforms
Core42 · Abu Dhabi Emirate
About Us Core42, a leader in AI-powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally. Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, Core42 empowers clients to harness sovere
Skills
6 days ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Data platform Lead
Luxoft · Abu Dhabi
Project description The Senior Engineer - Data Governance & Platform Lead (IB&M) is a hands-on senior technical role responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the IB&M Data Platform with a strong focus on dat
Skills
1 weeks ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform Databricks)
Luxoft · Abu Dhabi Emirate
Project Description: The Senior Engineer - Data Governance & Platform Lead (IB&M) is a hands-on senior technical role responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the IB&M Data Platform with a strong focus on da
Skills
1 weeks ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗IT-Engineer- Data Platform Databricks
Luxoft · Abu Dhabi
Project description The Senior Engineer - Data Governance & Platform Lead (IB&M) is a hands-on senior technical role responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the IB&M Data Platform with a strong focus on dat
Skills
1 weeks ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Senior Data Architect (AWS Data Platforms)
NorthBay - Pakistan · Dubai
Job Title: Senior Data Architect – AWS Location: Dubai, UAE (Onsite) Experience Required: 12+ Years Employment Type: Full-Time Work Mode: Onsite Job Summary We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect with
Skills
2 weeks ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Data Platform Engineering Manager
TALENTMATE · Dubai
Job Description Building the Future of Crypto Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. What makes us dif
Skills
1 months ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Senior Data Platform Engineer
Ziina · Dubai
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, design data warehouse architecture, ensure data quality, and enable self-service analytics using modern tools.
Skills
1 months ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Senior Product Manager, AI Data Platform
Recruited · Abu Dhabi
What’s the opportunity? 🚀 Our client is a fast-growing, privately owned technology company building a next-generation AI data platform for enterprise customers. They’re creating a product designed to compete directly wi
Skills
1 months ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗Databricks Data Platform Engineer/Architect
Luxoft · Abu Dhabi
Project description We are seeking a highly skilled Databricks Platform Engineer with strong experience in data engineering. The candidate will have a deep understanding of both data platforms and software engineering, e
Skills
1 months ago
Apply Now↗Apply Now ↗2.2K+
Cover Letters & Follow-ups
1.8K+
Resumes Tailored
190.5K+
Jobs Tracked
Trusted by professionals at
Stop applying blindly.
Start getting hired.
Base Career automates the hardest parts of job searching — apply smarter, not harder.
AI Resume in 60s
Your resume rewritten for this exact role using the job description as the brief.
ATS-Optimized
Get past automated screening filters with the right keywords matched to each job.
Application Tracker
Track every job, follow-up, and interview in one visual kanban board.
Free plan · No credit card required