Senior Rust Engineer for Low-Latency Trading Systems

Kraken; Mexico; On-site; PHP 10,658,000 - 14,420,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, one of the world’s longest-standing crypto platforms, is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will write reusable, efficient code that scales across teams while focusing on reliability, performance, and security.

Join a global team of Rust engineers, work on high-impact systems, and mentor others as you help evolve the trading backend services and APIs, with a security-first mindset guiding

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security-first mindset during system design.
• Autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Understanding of distributed systems and Kafka/RPC/Event-Driven architectures.
• Collaborate with product teams to gather requirements.
• Take end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers and contribute to technical culture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture translating product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work alongside hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance, product-driven environment.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Security-first design

Mentorship

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Job description

Kraken, one of the world’s longest-standing crypto platforms, is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will write reusable, efficient code that scales across teams while focusing on reliability, performance, and security.

Join a global team of Rust engineers, work on high-impact systems, and mentor others as you help evolve the trading backend services and APIs, with a security-first mindset guiding