Senior Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI infrastructure and high-performance systems at Kraken, a leading crypto platform.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production
Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution
Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput
Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring
Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows
Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers
Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems
Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems
Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming
Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization
Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads
Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments
Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems
Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure and applied engineering teams
High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Rustsystems-level programmingdistributed systemsreliability engineeringperformance optimizationML infrastructuremodel servingMLOpsobservabilitymonitoring

Soft Skills

collaborationownership mindset