Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
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Senior Software Engineer – Rust
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$110.4K - $220.8K / year
Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsKafkaRust
Job Description
• Design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken’s core infrastructure, prioritizing correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code built for scale, observability, and operational resilience in production environments.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, shaping low-latency, fault-tolerant services that support global trading and internal platforms.
• Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-bar engineering culture grounded in ownership, rigor, and craftsmanship.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms, and supporting multiple product roadmaps
- Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
- Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
- Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
- Apply a solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions
- Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
- Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus