Staff Security Architect

As a Staff Security Architect at Kraken Security Labs, you design, review, and verify robust security architecture across a heterogeneous environment spanning classical infrastructure, cryptography, web3, complex Rust projects, and next-generation AI products. You work in a small, highly technical team embedded directly with engineering teams across the company, providing deeply technical internal security consulting rather than high-level guidance alone.

What you'll do

• Design, review, and verify robust security architecture in a heterogeneous environment
• Conduct thorough security assessments and audits of existing architectures, recommending practical improvements
• Stay updated with the latest blockchain security trends, threats, and mitigation techniques
• Provide expertise to blockchain teams, ensuring secure operational practices

What you bring

• Proven experience as an IT security expert with a strong background in application security
• Experience in security testing of diverse applications
• Experience with infrastructure security
• Basic familiarity with security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, technical environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work remotely with stakeholders across the organization

About Kraken

Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services. Kraken is part of Payward, a financial infrastructure company that also operates NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks.