Senior Software Engineer – C++

🕒 June 29

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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

• Develop and maintain core framework and key software components for the Kraken trading engine, with a focus on the Aeron-based messaging transport layer • Design and implement low-latency, high-availability messaging solutions across unicast, multicast, and IPC transport paths • Tune and profile the full system stack — CPU pinning, NUMA topology, kernel bypass, receive buffer sizing — to squeeze latency out of production infrastructure • Build and extend Aeron Archive integrations for durable message replay and stream persistence • Build and design solutions that mitigate risk, implement security, and protect both systems and data • Write reusable, testable, and efficient code • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to product roadmap accomplishment • Work collaboratively on a distributed team, leveraging soft skills to effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience working with modern C++ • Prior experience in at least one of the following using Linux — distributed and/or highly-concurrent systems; low-latency and/or high-volume transaction environments • Deep understanding of low-latency systems fundamentals: lock-free data structures, mechanical sympathy, cache-line discipline, busy-spin vs. park/wake tradeoffs • Experience with Aeron or comparable messaging transports (e.g. Chronicle Queue, ZeroMQ, LMAX Disruptor) highly desirable • Experience with UDP networking, multicast, and kernel-bypass techniques (e.g. DPDK, RDMA) a strong plus • Familiarity with SBE (Simple Binary Encoding) or similar zero-copy serialisation formats a plus • Experience profiling and optimising code (CPU, memory, network) — perf, flamegraphs, VTune, or equivalent • High level of proficiency in Python, Rust, and SQL strongly preferred • Demonstrated knowledge of order types, trading systems, and financial products is highly desirable • Cryptocurrency/Blockchain familiarity highly preferable • BS in a technical or quantitative field

🏖️ Benefits

• Building the Future of Open Finance • Proactive mindset with the ability to prioritize tasks and adhere to aggressive deadlines • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and contribution to product roadmap accomplishment • Opportunities for professional development