Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Core Engineering
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Design and implement robust Rust services, ensuring security and maintainability while collaborating on distributed systems and taking ownership of infrastructure.
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- The team
- Our Platform and Core Engineering teams build the systems that make Kraken secure, resilient, and scalable.
- Their impact isn t measured by customer-facing features, but by the strength, correctness, and leverage of the foundations they create.
- These teams power Kraken systems behind the scenes enabling product teams to move fast while meeting the highest standards for reliability, compliance, and security.
- Engineers design shared services, internal platforms, and critical infrastructure that support company-wide initiatives.
- They optimize for safety, scalability, observability, auditability, and operational excellence often operating in regulated, security-sensitive, and risk-heavy environments where precision matters.
- We re looking for engineers with deep systems ownership and an architecture-first mindset builders who take pride in long-lived services, thrive in complex environments, and are motivated by strengthening the backbone of the crypto ecosystem.
- The opportunity
- 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.br>
Skills You Should Hodl
- 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
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