Senior Rust Engineer - Trading Backend Systems

Kraken; Argentina; Hybrid; ARS 136,430,000 - 227,383,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking an accomplished software engineer with 7+ years of experience to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to a distributed, low-latency stack and collaborate with a global team of Rust engineers to deliver reliable systems with strong security postures.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, mentorship, and a security-first approach in architecture and implementation, across a high-performance

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing asynchronous Rust services.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Security-first mindset

OS/network/application debugging

RPC protocols

Kafka

Mentorship

Product collaboration

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-Driven Systems

Job description

Kraken is seeking an accomplished software engineer with 7+ years of experience to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to a distributed, low-latency stack and collaborate with a global team of Rust engineers to deliver reliable systems with strong security postures.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, mentorship, and a security-first approach in architecture and implementation, across a high-performance