Software Engineer – Database

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $96k - $192k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend 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

• Build, test, and ship well-typed, well-reviewed features and fixes in Haskell services across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage • Understand order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end • Design schemas, constraints, and indexes for new features using exact numeric types and audit trails • Write lock-safe, reversible migrations on large tables and review other engineers' migrations • Read execution plans, identify slow queries from production metrics, and fix issues in queries, indexes, or access patterns • Monitor systems, respond to alerts, and support daily operations such as settlement cycles • Fix the causes of production issues and document learnings

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience • Experience with a functional or strongly typed programming language such as Haskell, Rust, or C++ • Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including transactions and isolation levels • Computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems • Willingness to participate in on-call and operational shifts • Care and rigor with code and financial data • Good judgment with AI tools, including reading, testing, and understanding generated output • Collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance, with documentation • Financial knowledge or experience in trading, markets, or financial services is a nice to have • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience is a nice to have • Haskell experience, particularly with PostgreSQL-backed services, is a nice to have • Production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL is a nice to have • Experience with time series or market data at volume is a nice to have • Experience with Atlas or another declarative schema management tool is a nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus program • Wellness allowance • Medical insurance [US Only] • Dental insurance [US Only] • Vision insurance [US Only] • 401(k) [US Only] • Kraken product dogfooding after joining

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