TeamKraken'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.OpportunityLead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers building Kraken's real-time streaming infrastructureOwn the architecture and roadmap for high-volume low-frequency data systems, with focus on data stack like Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, RisingWave, Apache FlinkDesign and operate scalable data architecture that serves 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 infrastructurePartner with ML/AI, analytics, and product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their workEvolve Kraken's data‑lake and warehouse architecture to support both batch and streaming workloads seamlesslySet technical direction for the team — balancing reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency at scaleHire, mentor, and retain top‑tier platform engineers; build a culture of ownership and technical excellenceSkills You Should HODL8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems — with at least 3 years managing engineering teamsExperience and knowledge of building data‑lakes in AWS (i.e. Spark, Athena, Iceberg, Parquet, Presto), including data modeling, dat

📌 Data Platform Engineering Manager (España)
🏢 Kraken
📍 España