Lead Platform Engineer
Kraken
About this role
A Lead Platform Engineer at Kraken is a senior engineering hire within the Foundational Reliability team in London, contributing to the company’s mission to build a smart, sustainable energy system. The role is part of Global Platform Engineering Reliability and focuses on ensuring platform resilience, scalability and high-level platform support for Kraken’s energy technology products.
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About Kraken
kraken.techKraken is a cloud‑native operating system for utility companies that centralizes customer experience, asset optimization, and field workforce management. Built to integrate smart meter and grid data, Kraken provides modular APIs, workflow orchestration, analytics and ML tools to automate billing, outage handling, dispatching and asset maintenance. Developed within the Octopus Energy Group, it’s designed to help utilities reduce operating costs, improve reliability and deliver faster, more personalised customer service. Utilities license Kraken to replace legacy stacks and accelerate digital transformation across customer, network and field operations.
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About Kraken
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$134k – $175k
per year