Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Data Engineer

• Own and evolve streaming data pipelines that power live inference and real-time model serving across Kraken's AI infrastructure
• Design and build feature stores that serve low-latency, high-reliability features to production ML models
• Implement and maintain streaming systems using RisingWave, Apache Flink, or Kafka Streams, selecting the right tool for the workload
• Partner with ML engineers and AI infra teams to define data contracts, feature schemas, and pipeline SLAs
• Drive pipelines toward real-time where batch exists today reducing latency from hours to seconds
• Ensure data quality, observability, and auditability across all streaming and feature engineering systems
• Contribute to inference pipeline tooling where data engineering and model serving intersect
• Evaluate emerging streaming and feature store technologies and shape the team's technical roadmap

Senior Data Engineer – Agents Systems

Product Manager

• Own and evolve a set of payment rails across both specific methods and geographic regions
• Lead partner integrations and manage relationships with payment processors, acquirers, and banking partners
• Drive continuous improvement of authorization rates, settlement speed, and overall user conversion
• Collaborate with fraud and compliance teams to ensure payment flows meet security, regulatory, and operational standards
• Drive UX enhancements through structured experimentation and customer insights
• Ensure payment capabilities are scalable and adaptable across our consumer app, pro trading app, and external interfaces such as on/off-ramps
• Use data to inform prioritization, track performance, and iterate toward better outcomes

Compliance

• Enhance, develop and mature operational processes across Risk, Compliance and Operations - using AI where appropriate to streamline workflows, automate operational processes to enhance efficiency and operational scalability
• Support on key compliance and operations initiatives including asset listing and market surveillance
• Support the implementation of the Risk Management Framework - identifying, logging and managing risks
• Support the lifecycle management of outsourcing service providers, in line with regulatory requirements
• Support end-to-end execution of EU MiCAR, and other entities regulatory projects and Product Launches, coordinating across Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Finance
• Support the preparation of Board and Committee materials, including regulatory updates, operational MI, outsourcing oversight reporting, and strategic initiatives for regulated entities
• Prepare executive and Board-level reporting that translates regulatory, operational, and commercial developments into clear risk, performance, and strategic insights for senior leadership and non-executive directors
• Engage cross functional teams and help influence decisions that are aligned with the entity’s strategy
• Work on and lead strategic cross functional projects (e.g. license applications)
• Support commercial and product teams in understanding MiCAR requirements and opportunities when designing new offerings

Risk, Compliance & Operations Analyst

General

• Execute integration programs across multiple acquisitions per year using Kraken's M&A Integration playbook
• Lead the full integration lifecycle—from early diligence through 12–24 months post-close
• Drive workstream execution across product engineering, G&A, and value creation tracks
• Translate deal thesis into detailed operational plans aligned to synergy targets and milestones
• Maintain synergy tracking systems and hold functional teams accountable to execution timelines
• Identify and own extraction of emerging synergy opportunities post-close
• Partner with executive stakeholders across Corp Dev, Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and Legal
• Maintain visibility into risk, timeline, interdependencies, and value realization across active integrations
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of integration frameworks, templates, and operating rhythm

Business Operations & Integration Lead

Software Engineer

• Collaborate closely with diverse cross-functional teams to conceive, execute, and oversee foundational infrastructure systems.
• Guarantee the availability, high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of critical services and platforms.
• Participate in system monitoring, incident response, automation initiatives, and infrastructure improvements.
• Implement data infrastructure solutions that support the needs of business units and engineers.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to design, provision, and manage infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts to automate operational tasks and deployments.
• Enhance and manage CI/CD pipelines for consistent software deployments across the data infrastructure.
• Implement robust data monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect anomalies and performance issues.
• Manage and implement role-based access control (RBAC) and permissions for user groups and workflows across environments.
• Document architecture, processes, and best practices to enable knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement.

Site Reliability Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Design, build, and operate the infrastructure layer supporting AI agent workflows in production
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of agentic systems across internal and external products
• Design and develop platform services, APIs, SDKs, and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to easily consume AI infrastructure and agent platform services
• Manage and maintain the compute, orchestration, and serving infrastructure powering model inference and agent execution
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures tailored to AI/ML workloads
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud (AWS) infrastructure components
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of AI services and agent workflows
• Define and implement guardrails, failure handling, and recovery patterns specific to agentic and LLM-powered systems
• Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering teams to translate experimental agent prototypes into hardened production systems
• Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI services
• Implement access controls and security best practices across AI infrastructure environments
• Document architecture, runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing across the team.

Site Reliability Engineer – AI Agents

Auditor

• Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs)
• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls
• Document testing procedures and results to meet quality standards
• Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings
• Assess management’s remediation actions before closing findings
• Track remediation progress and report status to Internal Audit leadership
• Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners
• Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee

SOX Auditor – IT Controls Manager

Compliance Analyst

• Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both.
• Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status.
• Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.
• 8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing.
• Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure.
• CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered.
• Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls.
• Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations.
• Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them.
• Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements.

SOX Auditor

Account Executive

• Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, consumer platforms, exchanges, and trading applications.
• Drive new partnerships focused on crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, embedded brokerage, and multi-asset trading infrastructure.
• Own the full sales cycle from outbound origination and discovery through commercial negotiation, signed agreement, and launch.
• Lead commercial discussions with C-level, product, engineering, and business stakeholders across prospective partner organizations.
• Position Payward Services as the partner of choice for companies seeking to launch or scale modern trading and investing experiences.
• Help partners bring investing and trading capabilities directly into their products through Payward Services’ API-first infrastructure stack.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Client Success teams to structure and launch scalable commercial partnerships.
• Identify new market opportunities across digital assets, tokenized finance, embedded investing, and next-generation trading applications.
• Represent Payward Services at key industry conferences, client meetings, and ecosystem events globally.
• Provide ongoing market feedback and competitive intelligence to help shape product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
• Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting, stakeholder mapping, and CRM hygiene across all commercial activities.

Account Executive, Trading-as-a-Service

• Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across financial institutions, broker-dealers, fintechs, consumer platforms, exchanges, and trading applications.
• Drive new partnerships focused on crypto trading, tokenized equities, derivatives/futures, embedded brokerage, and multi-asset trading infrastructure.
• Own the full sales cycle from outbound origination and discovery through commercial negotiation, signed agreement, and launch.
• Lead commercial discussions with C-level, product, engineering, and business stakeholders across prospective partner organizations.
• Position Payward Services as the partner of choice for companies seeking to launch or scale modern trading and investing experiences.
• Help partners bring investing and trading capabilities directly into their products through Payward Services’ API-first infrastructure stack.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Client Success teams to structure and launch scalable commercial partnerships.
• Identify new market opportunities across digital assets, tokenized finance, embedded investing, and next-generation trading applications.
• Represent Payward Services at key industry conferences, client meetings, and ecosystem events globally.
• Provide ongoing market feedback and competitive intelligence to help shape product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.

Business Development Manager, Trading

LLM Engineer

• 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

Senior Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure

Account Manager

• Deliver consistent, high-quality service to HNWI clients worldwide, building and nurturing trusted relationships through exceptional account management.
• Drive KPIs across revenue, trading volume and assets on platform through rigorous, data-driven analysis and proactive strategy execution.
• Bring Kraken's private client and VIP offerings to market to ensure benefits remain impactful and competitive.
• Serve as the trusted point of contact for Kraken's top private clients, building deep relationships and trust.
• Execute programmes and initiatives that increase client activity, trading and assets on platform.
• Leverage blockchain analytics, trading data and client insights to inform revenue-generating efforts and strategic decision-making.
• Partner with product, marketing and client service teams to champion new efforts that drive private client growth and loyalty.

Senior VIP Relationship Manager

• Own the preparation, quality control, and timely submission of all outbound sanctions regulatory reports, including OFAC reports
• Maintain a filing calendar and proactively escalate risks of late or incomplete submissions to sanctions leadership
• Identify and drive automation opportunities across the sanctions reporting workflow
• Work with AI and engineering teams to scope and test connectors between sanctions tooling and downstream reporting systems
• Partner with Regional Compliance Officers across non-US jurisdictions to solicit and incorporate local regulatory feedback
• Serve as a trained backup for sanctions investigations and account closure decisions
• Document current-state processes and propose improvements that reduce manual effort without compromising regulatory accuracy or accountability

Senior Compliance Associate, Sanctions

• Deliver consistent, high-quality service to HNWI clients worldwide, building and nurturing trusted relationships through exceptional account management.
• Drive KPIs across revenue, trading volume and assets on platform through rigorous, data-driven analysis and proactive strategy execution.
• Bring Kraken's private client and VIP offerings to market to ensure benefits remain impactful and competitive.
• Serve as the trusted point of contact for Kraken's top private clients, building deep relationships and trust.
• Execute programmes and initiatives that increase client activity, trading and assets on platform.
• Leverage blockchain analytics, trading data and client insights to inform revenue-generating efforts and strategic decision-making.
• Partner with product, marketing and client service teams to champion new efforts that drive private client growth and loyalty.
• Manage and expand an existing network of high-net-worth clients.
• Nurture relationships with some of the largest whales in the space, helping them unlock the full value of Kraken's product suite.
• Play a key role in scaling and executing the best VIP programme in the industry.

Sr. VIP Relationship Manager

Developer Relations

• Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces
• Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals
• Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with
• Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one
• Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure
• Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform
• Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences
• Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction
• Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization