Senior Rust Backend Engineer for Crypto Systems

Kraken Exchange; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking an experienced Rust-focused software engineer to join our Crypto team in New York. You will design and implement robust Rust services, explore cross-chain integrations, and help accelerate crypto adoption across our platforms.

Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineering to deliver new features, write reusable, testable code, and contribute to large-scale distributed systems while mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness.
• Ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• 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.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture.
• Deep knowledge in blockchain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Substrate is a huge plus.
• Proficiency with Typescript (Node.js) is a plus.
• Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented, stoic in the face of obstacles.
• Proactively adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and apply innovative solutions to dynamic challenges, showing flexibility and resilience.
• Demonstrates a receptive mindset, open to constructive dialogue with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Express your crypto passion.
• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Frontend Engineering, to ensure seamless integration of new features.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code.
• Collaborate on large scale distributed systems architecture.
• Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers.
• Opportunity to work with on-chain data.
• Partner closely with crypto native engineers.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Security-first design

Debugging across stack

RPC/Kafka/Event-Driven

Mentorship

Blockchain ecosystems

Typescript/Node.js

Bitcoin/Crypto passion

Cross-functional collaboration

End-to-end ownership

Adaptive/resilient

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Node.js

RPC

Job description

Kraken is seeking an experienced Rust-focused software engineer to join our Crypto team in New York. You will design and implement robust Rust services, explore cross-chain integrations, and help accelerate crypto adoption across our platforms.

Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineering to deliver new features, write reusable, testable code, and contribute to large-scale distributed systems while mentoring peers.