Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes Platform
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You build and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple datacenters. You troubleshoot infrastructure issues, solve complex platform problems, create automation and tooling, and participate in an on-call rotation while maintaining reliable Kubernetes infrastructure.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Software Engineer
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
- Strong Linux systems knowledge
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and PKI
- Understanding of Kubernetes internals and concepts
- Familiarity with advanced Kubernetes networking such as Cilium
- Ability to use AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI
- Scripting or programming experience in Python, Bash, Go, or similar
Responsibilities
- Operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple datacenters
- Triage and organize infrastructure issues
- Solve complex platform problems
- Build automation and tooling
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Maintain platform reliability
