Senior Software Engineer – Rust

🔥 14 hours ago

🇷🇴 Romania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries powering Kraken’s core infrastructure • Prioritize correctness, security, and long-term maintainability • Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code for scale, observability, and operational resilience • Collaborate on large-scale distributed-systems architecture • Shape low-latency, fault-tolerant services supporting global trading and internal platforms • Contribute to a high-bar engineering culture alongside experienced Rust engineers • Build systems that support Kraken’s secure, resilient, and scalable financial infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms, and supporting multiple product roadmaps • Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust • Security-first mindset during system design • Ability to autonomously debug issues across the OS, network, and application stack • Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven systems • Ability to collaborate with product teams to gather requirements and constraints • Ability to take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries • Applicants must select the city and country from which they will work • Applicants must disclose whether they need current or future sponsorship to work in their location

🏖️ Benefits

• Kraken product dogfooding is required for everyone once they join Kraken • Equal opportunity employment commitment • Job-related skills or work-style assessments are part of the hiring process and applied consistently across similar positions