Rust Software Engineer – Open Finance Infrastructure

Kraken; Town of Sweden (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale Rust-based services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will work on real-time, low-latency systems with a security-first mindset and ownership of critical components.

You will collaborate with teams to translate product requirements into robust, scalable infrastructure and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture across Payward Services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• 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 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

Rust

Distributed systems

Network services

Kafka

RPC

Security-first

Debugging across stack

Ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Rust tooling

Distributed systems design

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale Rust-based services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will work on real-time, low-latency systems with a security-first mindset and ownership of critical components.

You will collaborate with teams to translate product requirements into robust, scalable infrastructure and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture across Payward Services.