Help design financial risk architecture that underpins Kraken’s products, treasury, and platform infrastructure
Build and evolve Kraken’s financial risk frameworks covering counterparty risk, treasury risk, payment rails, and crypto market structure
Define exposure methodologies and risk limits for exchanges, custodians, banks, liquidity providers, and DeFi protocols
Partner with product and engineering teams to evaluate and shape new products before launch
Identify financial risks across margin, derivatives, staking, DeFi integrations, lending, and payments
Help design risk controls, collateral frameworks, and guardrails that enable safe product innovation
Build scenario frameworks to model extreme crypto market conditions
Quantify firmwide impacts on liquidity, collateral, and counterparty exposures
Evaluate financial risks across Kraken’s external ecosystem including liquidity providers, market makers, banks, custodians, and DeFi protocols
Design onboarding frameworks for new counterparties and venues
Partner with Treasury to assess risks related to firm investments, liquidity management, and balance sheet exposures
Help design tools and data systems used to measure and visualize financial risk across Kraken

Requirements

7+ years of experience in financial risk, treasury risk, credit risk, or product risk
Experience at a major bank, trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto company
Strong understanding of financial markets, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk
Interest in crypto market structure, stablecoins, and DeFi ecosystems
Ability to build risk frameworks in fast-moving environments
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
Familiarity with on-chain analytics or blockchain data (Nice to haves)
Python or data analysis experience (Nice to haves)

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial risktreasury riskcredit riskproduct riskrisk frameworkson-chain analyticsdata analysisPythonquantitative problem-solvingscenario modeling

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationadaptability