Staff Engineer, Verification Platform & Growth

Kraken; Argentina; On-site; ARS 271,641,000 - 422,552,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer for Pro Verifications to own the technical direction of verification. You’ll be hands-on across the stack and shape how we verify partners, own contracts, and drive reliability and compliance.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, define ADRs, and push for faster, safer verification while staying auditable under regulatory scrutiny. A proven track record in distributed systems is essential.

Qualifications

• Eight years building and running production systems, with a track record of owning a domain's technical direction.
• Deep, fluent expertise in Rust, with the versatility to work across TypeScript and React where verification meets the customer.
• You've set architecture others build on, and you can point to specific classes of failure you designed out.

Responsibilities

• Set the shape of the verification services and their contracts across the KYC/KYB flow.
• Decide how we abstract KYC and KYB vendors to prevent outages from provider issues.
• Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails that hold up under regulatory scrutiny.
• Mentor and raise the bar for senior engineers through design reviews, code, and feedback.
• Drive architecture decisions (ADRs) and ensure security and compliance at design time.

Skills

Rust

TypeScript

React

gRPC

Temporal

Security design

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer for Pro Verifications to own the technical direction of verification. You’ll be hands-on across the stack and shape how we verify partners, own contracts, and drive reliability and compliance.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, define ADRs, and push for faster, safer verification while staying auditable under regulatory scrutiny. A proven track record in distributed systems is essential.