Network Engineer - Core Infrastructure at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you thrive in a challenging, fun, fast-paced environment, the Network Engineer role within Core Infrastructure Engineering at Kraken is for you! This is a strategic, security-minded, hands-on position critical to Kraken's success - on a highly dedicated team that <strong>designs, builds, secures, and operates the entire network and data-center infrastructure</strong> for one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges. We want a dynamic, code-forward self-starter who thinks "outside the box," sweats the operational details, and automates the repetitive work away. This role spans four disciplines - build, secure, operate, and automate. We don't expect anyone to master all of them on day one. We hire across levels: earlier-career engineers will focus on hands-on build and the operational request queue and grow into design and tooling, while senior engineers will lead fabric/network design, own automation, and mentor the team.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Design &amp; build data centers</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and build data centers end-to-end: cages, racks, PDU/power, structured cabling, and hardware install</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deliver connectivity - circuits, dark fiber, and DIA - including carrier/vendor coordination, cross-connects, and capacity planning</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Stand up and evolve modern data-center fabrics (e.g., Cisco ACI and HPE Juniper Apstra)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Secure the network</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, implemen