Trading Systems Engineer - Rust & C++

Kraken; Danmark; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a global engineering team working on Rust and C++ services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and security in scalable, low-latency systems.

You'll collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into robust architectures and take end-to-end ownership of critical libraries and services across distributed platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Experience with modern C++, including performance-sensitive, low-latency systems.
• 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 and C++ 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 and C++ engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

Skills

Rust programming

C++ development

Distributed systems

Async network services

Security-first design

Debug across stack

RPC protocols

Kafka

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Job description

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a global engineering team working on Rust and C++ services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and security in scalable, low-latency systems.

You'll collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into robust architectures and take end-to-end ownership of critical libraries and services across distributed platforms.