Senior Rust Systems Engineer — Core Platform (Remote)

Kraken; Málaga; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken’s core infrastructure. You’ll build reusable, high-performance code for scale, observability, and resilience in production environments.

Join a team of Rust engineers and contribute to a security-first, architecture-focused culture. You’ll own end-to-end systems, collaborate with product teams, and help shape low-latency, fault-tolerant services for global

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms, and supporting multiple product roadmaps.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken’s core infrastructure.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code built for scale, observability, and operational resilience in production environments.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, shaping low-latency, fault-tolerant services that support global trading and internal platforms.
• Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-bar engineering culture grounded in ownership, rigor, and craftsmanship.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Networking

Security-minded design

End-to-end debugging

RPC/Kafka/Event-Driven

Cross-functional collaboration

System ownership

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken’s core infrastructure. You’ll build reusable, high-performance code for scale, observability, and resilience in production environments.

Join a team of Rust engineers and contribute to a security-first, architecture-focused culture. You’ll own end-to-end systems, collaborate with product teams, and help shape low-latency, fault-tolerant services for global