Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Backend

About the Role

Join our Crypto team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, focusing on elevating our clients' crypto journey.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Frontend 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.
• Opportunities to work with on-chain data.
• Partner closely with crypto native engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency 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.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture.

Nice-to-Haves

• Deep knowledge in one or more blockchain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Substrate.
• Proficiency with Typescript (Node.js).
• Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.