Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Software Engineer, Rust Backend

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $127,000 - $203,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsRust

About the role

  • Building the Future of Crypto
  • Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
  • What makes us different?
  • Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.
  • Kraken Culture
  • As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.
  • Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!
  • The team
  • The Pro team is responsible for everything to do with the trading backend services such as the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services. The team is located globally and responsibilities are split into sub-teams, working with various tech stacks. Our teams code in Rust and work agile around the globe. Recently, the team played a critical role in scaling Kraken's trading infrastructure.
  • The opportunity
  • Express your crypto passion
  • Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Fronted Engineering to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements
  • Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code
  • Collaborate on large scale distributed systems architecture
  • Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers
  • Skills you should HODL
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiently 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)
  • Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
  • Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
  • Pragmatic and solution-oriented, stoic in the face of many obstacles
  • Proactively adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and apply innovative solutions to dynamic challenges, demonstrating flexibility and resilience in a fast-paced development environment
  • Demonstrates a receptive mindset, adept at engaging in constructive dialogue on complex subjects with colleagues, while remaining adaptable and open to alternative perspectives

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience Proficiently 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) Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries Pragmatic and solution-oriented, stoic in the face of many obstacles Proactively adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and apply innovative solutions to dynamic challenges, demonstrating flexibility and resilience in a fast-paced development environment Demonstrates a receptive mindset, adept at engaging in constructive dialogue on complex subjects with colleagues, while remaining adaptable and open to alternative perspectives