Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Kraken’s growing Consumer team as a Senior Software Engineer and help onboard the next 100 million people to the benefits of crypto. This fully remote role focuses on developing and maintaining applications that simplify Kraken’s product offerings for a mass market audience. You will design and implement robust Rust services and libraries, write efficient and testable code, collaborate on large-scale distributed systems, and work with experienced Rust engineers. The ideal candidate possesses a strong security mindset, understands distributed systems, and can effectively collaborate with product teams. This is an ongoing application process with no deadline.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase
• Collaborate on large scale distributed systems architecture
• Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture