Staff Engineer, Verification Platform & Compliance

Kraken; Chile; Presencial; CLP 169.332.000 - 244.591.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer for Pro Verifications to shape the verification stack, define contracts across KYC/KYB, and drive architecture decisions. You will mentor engineers, design fail-closed audit trails, and partner with vendors to ensure robust, scalable onboarding and regulatory compliance.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep systems expertise, experience with Rust and distributed services, and a track record of delivering secure, reliable platforms that scale in crypto

Formación

• Around eight years building and running production systems, with a track record of owning a domain's technical direction, not just delivering inside one.
• Deep, fluent expertise in Rust, with the versatility to work across TypeScript and React where verification meets the customer.
• You've set architecture other people build on, and it held up - you can point to specific classes of failure you designed out, not just incidents you fixed.
• You've made teams faster through patterns, tooling, or mentoring - engineers around you got better and shipped more because of calls you made.
• You've built where being wrong had real consequences: compliance, payments, security, or anywhere a bad call costs more than a rough user experience.
• Strong on distributed systems, service contracts, and secure design - you've integrated third-party APIs that couldn't be trusted, with real timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, and backup paths that actually get tested.
• Comfort building with AI in the loop.
• Time spent in crypto, fintech, or another space regulators pay close attention to.

Responsabilidades

• Set the shape of the verification services and their contracts across the KYC/KYB flow.
• Decide how we abstract KYC and KYB vendors so a bad provider day doesn't turn into an outage.
• Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails that hold up under regulatory scrutiny.
• Identify the classes of failure that keep recurring and remove them for good.
• Write and drive architecture decisions (ADRs), and hold the line on security and compliance at design time, not as a late gate.
• Mentor and raise the bar for senior engineers through design reviews, code, and direct feedback.
• Be measured on whether verification gets faster, more of it decides itself, fewer decisions are wrong, and the systems stay up - and on whether the team got stronger for you being on it.

Conocimientos

Rust

Distributed systems

Architecture ownership

Leadership / mentoring

Security design

gRPC

Docker & Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

TypeScript

React

Temporal

Herramientas

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

GitLab CI

GRPC

TypeScript

React

Descripción del empleo

Kraken is seeking a Staff Engineer for Pro Verifications to shape the verification stack, define contracts across KYC/KYB, and drive architecture decisions. You will mentor engineers, design fail-closed audit trails, and partner with vendors to ensure robust, scalable onboarding and regulatory compliance.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep systems expertise, experience with Rust and distributed services, and a track record of delivering secure, reliable platforms that scale in crypto