Senior Rust Engineer - Trading Backend for Crypto Platform

Kraken; Poland; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, is seeking an experienced Rust engineer to design and implement robust services powering trading and crypto experiences. You’ll focus on reliability, performance, and security in high-sensitivity financial infrastructure.

Join a global team of Rust engineers, work on large-scale distributed systems, and own end-to-end ownership of core libraries. You will collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into scalable, low-latency solutions and mentor

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 to ensure robustness.
• Autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems.
• Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems.
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

Skills

7+ years

Trading systems

Distributed systems

Debugging across stack

Tools

Rust

Kafka

RPC

Event-driven

Asynchronous

Job description

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, is seeking an experienced Rust engineer to design and implement robust services powering trading and crypto experiences. You’ll focus on reliability, performance, and security in high-sensitivity financial infrastructure.

Join a global team of Rust engineers, work on large-scale distributed systems, and own end-to-end ownership of core libraries. You will collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into scalable, low-latency solutions and mentor