Rust Backend Engineer for High-Performance Trading

kraken.com; USA; Remote; USD 120.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kraken is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the systems that power our financial trading and digital asset services. You’ll work across Rust and C++ services, libraries, and distributed architectures, with a focus on performance, reliability, and security.

You will design reusable services, implement efficient networked components for trading workflows, and contribute to low-latency, event-driven architectures.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum of three years of software engineering experience, including financial trading products.
• Proficient in Rust network services or asynchronous Rust code.
• Experience with modern C++ in performance-sensitive, low-latency systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems (RPC, Kafka, event-driven).

Aufgaben

• Design and implement reusable services and libraries for trading and payment workflows.
• Build and improve networked and asynchronous systems.
• Contribute to distributed system architecture, translating product needs into resilient, low-latency designs.
• Debug issues across application, network, and operating system layers.
• Own systems and libraries from design through operation, coordinating with product partners to clarify requirements and constraints.
• Write testable code for critical systems while maintaining safety and security.

Kenntnisse

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Low-latency

Jobbeschreibung

Kraken is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the systems that power our financial trading and digital asset services. You’ll work across Rust and C++ services, libraries, and distributed architectures, with a focus on performance, reliability, and security.

You will design reusable services, implement efficient networked components for trading workflows, and contribute to low-latency, event-driven architectures.