Staff Engineer, Verification Platform & Growth

Kraken; Comisión de Fomento de Perú; On-site; ARS 271,858,000 - 362,478,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer in Pro Verifications to shape the verification stack and drive architecture across KYC/KYB workflows. You will lead the technical direction, own contracts, and work hands-on across the stack to improve speed, reliability, and auditability.

Expect to mentor engineers, design fail-closed systems, and partner with regulators to ensure compliant, scalable outcomes. This role is pivotal for a fast-growing, safety-conscious crypto platform.

Qualifications

• Around 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.
• Architectural ownership with evidence of designing scalable, secure, and reliable systems.
• Mentoring and raising the bar for senior engineers through reviews, code, and feedback.
• Experience with distributed systems, service contracts, and secure design; integrating external APIs with robust timeouts and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Set the shape of the verification services and their contracts across the KYC/KYB flow.
• Decide how to abstract KYC/KYB vendors to prevent outages during provider issues.
• Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails that withstand regulatory scrutiny.
• Identify and eliminate recurring failure classes across the verification stack.
• Write and drive architecture decisions (ADRs) and enforce security/compliance at design time.
• Mentor senior engineers through design reviews, code guidance, and direct feedback.
• Measure improvements: faster verification, more autonomous decisions, fewer wrong calls, and stronger team.

Skills

Rust

TypeScript

React

Distributed systems

Architecture decisions

Mentoring

Security design

gRPC

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

Tools

gRPC

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer in Pro Verifications to shape the verification stack and drive architecture across KYC/KYB workflows. You will lead the technical direction, own contracts, and work hands-on across the stack to improve speed, reliability, and auditability.

Expect to mentor engineers, design fail-closed systems, and partner with regulators to ensure compliant, scalable outcomes. This role is pivotal for a fast-growing, safety-conscious crypto platform.