Software Engineer - DevOps
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will improve CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and run containerized services on Nomad. You will build deployment tooling with health checks and automated rollback, add metrics and alerts, monitor systems and support daily operations such as settlement cycles. You will also fix root causes of production issues and ship well-reviewed features, mostly in Haskell, across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Production experience with AWS and Docker, and infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Strong Linux and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a functional or strongly typed language such as Haskell, Rust, or C++
- Solid computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems
- Willingness to take part in on-call and operational shifts
- Good judgment with AI tools
- Collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance, with a habit of documenting
Responsibilities
- Improve build and release pipelines in GitHub Actions: caching, parallelism, pinned toolchains, and required tests and scans
- Manage AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and run services as containers on Nomad
- Build deployment tooling with health checks and automated rollback
- Make deploys safe around market sessions
- Add metrics and alerts to services
- Monitor systems, respond to alerts, and support daily operations such as settlement cycles
- Fix causes of production issues and document learnings
- Build, test, and ship well-reviewed features and fixes, mostly in Haskell
- Understand order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) (US only)
- Remote work
