Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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Senior Software Engineer – Rust

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2011H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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

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