Senior Rust Engineer - Trading Backend Systems

JobCubby; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, operated by Payward, seeks an experienced software engineer to design and implement Rust-based services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to a distributed, low-latency backend and collaborate across product teams to deliver robust, scalable systems.

You will work with a global team of Rust engineers, practicing a security-first approach and owning end-to-end solutions from design through deployment.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 while contributing to defining the technical culture.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Security-minded

End-to-end ownership

Debug across stack

Mentorship

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-Driven Systems

Job description

Kraken, operated by Payward, seeks an experienced software engineer to design and implement Rust-based services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to a distributed, low-latency backend and collaborate across product teams to deliver robust, scalable systems.

You will work with a global team of Rust engineers, practicing a security-first approach and owning end-to-end solutions from design through deployment.