Senior Rust Engineer: Real-Time Open Finance Platform

Kraken; Town of Sweden (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Payward Services to design and scale Rust-based services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will help build reliable, low-latency systems with a security‑first mindset and work within a large, high‑performance Rust engineering culture.

You will own end‑to‑end components, mentor others, and collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into robust architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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 ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Apply understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols and Kafka, to design scalable solutions.

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.
• Take complete end‑to‑end ownership of systems and libraries.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous programming

Security‑first mindset

End‑to‑end ownership

Debugging across the stack

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Payward Services to design and scale Rust-based services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will help build reliable, low-latency systems with a security‑first mindset and work within a large, high‑performance Rust engineering culture.

You will own end‑to‑end components, mentor others, and collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into robust architectures.