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.
Engineering Operations is the operational engine of the Consumer group. We build the automations, tracking and metrics that keep teams aligned and informed, so engineers can spend their time building. Our goal is to reduce manual work, improve visibility into engineering activity, and turn repeatable processes into reliable software. We work closely with engineers, engineering managers and teams across the business to identify friction and turn feedback and operational data into scalable solutions.
The Opportunity & Scope
- Help engineering teams execute faster by owning the processes and tooling that remove friction
- Use AI and automation in your day to day work to solve real problems for the teams you support
- Administer Jira and Confluence including configuration, workflows, permissions and automations
- Own the triage and intake process so work reaches engineering properly routed and to standard
- Keep roadmaps healthy and run weekly delivery reporting to leadership
- Own the quality of engineering metrics data including team definitions, ownership records and tool configuration
Candidate Profile & Mindset
- 3+ years of experience in operations, process, or tooling roles, with one major experience shipping something meaningful
- Hands on Jira administration covering boards, workflows, schemas, permissions and custom fields
- Real deliberate use of AI in day to day work knowing when and how to apply it and building with it
- Systematic thinking to see how processes and systems connect and where changes break downstream
- Ability to turn vague requests from senior stakeholders into scoped work and confidently turn things down when that's the right call
- Strong written communication skills and ability to document processes clearly
- Genuine interest in operations, internal tooling and developer experience
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and frameworks
- Exposure to engineering metrics, developer productivity data or DORA metrics
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Familiarity with crypto having used Kraken or similar products and understanding the space
- Experience building Jira automation rules or Rovo agents
- SQL and/or experience with TypeScript and scripting languages
- Experience building Slack workflows or integrations
- Familiarity with Slack, Jira or GitLab APIs
- Exposure to localisation, QA or compliance processes
- Experience working in a remote or distributed team 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.
Our commitment
We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills 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 knowledgeable about crypto.
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
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About Kraken
Kraken, founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell in San Francisco, is one of the oldest regulated crypto exchanges, serving 10M+ clients and 200+ countries with spot, margin, futures and staking, plus a UK FCA-registered and US FinCEN-registered footprint. Privately held, it emphasizes security, proof-of-reserves and 24/7 client support. Kraken also built Kraken Wallet and is expanding in Europe and the Middle East. The culture values crypto conviction, customer focus and operational rigor. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing and most secure digital asset exchanges, offering deep spot and futures liquidity, staking rewards, and institutional prime services. Kraken maintains rigorous security standards with 24/7 client support, multi-sig cold storage protection, and transparent proof-of-reserves auditing.