Cloud Security Engineer II

Building the Future of Crypto 

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Kraken NFT, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

Join the Cloud Security Team at Kraken, where we're re-inventing the way cloud security is done. Our mission is to safeguard Kraken's platform, assets, and infrastructure from the most sophisticated cyber threats, ensuring our systems operate with unparalleled security, availability, and durability. As a team of elite cloud security professionals, we thrive on innovation, collaboration, and creative problem-solving to tackle the most complex security challenges. We're not just engineers - we're pioneers, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in cloud security.

By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, develop novel solutions, and make a real impact on the security posture of a global leader in the fintech industry. Our recent accomplishments include publishing a benchmark for all engineering teams to adhere to, rotating a number of access keys, and partnering with our CSPM solution on their new auto-remediation module. Looking ahead, our goals include building multi-account solutions with automation and IaC, consolidating our cloud organizations, auto-remediating open security groups, and enforcing our PAM solution on all endpoints. If you're a top performer in the industry looking for a new challenge, we invite you to join our epic team and help shape the future of cloud security at Kraken.

The opportunity

• Own and maintain security for public cloud infrastructure and SaaS-based tooling

• Regularly auditing public cloud infrastructure, identifying findings, and tracking efforts to remediation

• Perform security research on our cloud environments to identify unmitigated risks and the business risk

• Partnering with key business functions to determine business requirements and inform on Security and Compliance needs

• Contributing to the development of best practices within our Security team including IAM policies, networking policies, auditing and logging standards

• Continually improving and optimizing operational efficiency through process improvement and automation

Skills you should HODL

• Extensive experience with cloud security engineering

• Experience with implementing global controls in AWS (e.g. AWS Organizations, SCPs, SSO)

• Experience with observability, telemetry, monitoring, logging platforms

• Experience building automation and architecting global solutions

• Experience using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) to manage resources

• Experience as an admin and fine tuning a CSPM solutions

• Ability to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced, and dynamic environment

• Deep experience with security best practices, including knowledge of leading security applications

Nice to haves

• Security program evangelization - onboard stakeholders to adhere to new policies or standards

• GCP experience

• Hands-on technical expertise - scripting and/or programming languages

• Terraform is a plus

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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

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.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable 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 knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. 

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