Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Core Services
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As a Senior Software Engineer on Kraken's Core Services team, you'll design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power the platform's core infrastructure. You'll work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to systems that make Kraken secure, resilient, and scalable for over 10 million individuals and institutions globally.
What you'll do
- 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
- Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
What you bring
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms, and supporting multiple product roadmaps
- Proficiency in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
- A security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
- The ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
- A solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems
- Strong collaboration skills with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
About Kraken
Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions. Founded in 2011, it offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services for both individual investors and institutional clients. Kraken is part of Payward, a parent company that has spent 15 years building modern, globally accessible financial infrastructure to advance an open, global financial system.