Senior Rust Backend Engineer - Trading & Open Finance

kraken.com; USA; Remote; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kraken is expanding its Pro team to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will write scalable, secure, and high-performance network code in Rust, contributing to the trading backend and distributed systems used by millions of users globally.

Join a globally distributed team that values reliability, security, and architectural excellence. You will mentor peers and shape the technical culture while delivering revenue-critical systems

Qualifikationen

• 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.
• Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems.
• Collaborate 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 and contribute to technical culture.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code that scales across teams and revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture for low-latency solutions.
• Work with hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance, product-driven culture.

Kenntnisse

Rust

Distributed systems

Financial trading

Async Rust

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Jobbeschreibung

Kraken is expanding its Pro team to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will write scalable, secure, and high-performance network code in Rust, contributing to the trading backend and distributed systems used by millions of users globally.

Join a globally distributed team that values reliability, security, and architectural excellence. You will mentor peers and shape the technical culture while delivering revenue-critical systems