Senior Rust Systems Engineer — Scalable Secure Infra

Kraken; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking experienced engineers to join its Platform and Core Engineering teams. You will design and implement Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken's core infrastructure, focusing on correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.

You will write reusable, testable code for scale and observability, and collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture to support global trading and internal platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms.
• 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).
• Understand 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries powering Kraken's core infrastructure.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code built for scale, observability, and resilience in production.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture for low-latency, fault-tolerant services.
• Work with hundreds of Rust engineers, upholding ownership, rigor, and craftsmanship.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Security-focused design

End-to-end ownership

Debugging across stack

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-driven architecture

Job description

Kraken is seeking experienced engineers to join its Platform and Core Engineering teams. You will design and implement Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken's core infrastructure, focusing on correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.

You will write reusable, testable code for scale and observability, and collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture to support global trading and internal platforms.