Principal Database Engineer

Kraken's Core Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates shared data systems behind critical production services. The Principal Database Engineer will assess the estate, define target architecture, execute roadmap, investigate MariaDB failures, build production software for database provisioning, work with application teams on schemas, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call and incident response. This is an individual contributor role with influence across teams.

8+ years operating production database estates at scale, strong understanding of high availability and replication, deep hands-on MariaDB expertise including InnoDB and GTID replication, personal ownership of MariaDB incident diagnosis and recovery, strong software engineering in Python/Go/Rust, strong Linux fundamentals, clear written technical judgment and delivery across teams. Preferred: experience with containerised environments, database proxies, PostgreSQL, Vitess, TiDB, ScyllaDB, ClickH