Senior Staff Software Engineer - Rust - Platform

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Rust - Platform BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. What makes us different? Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world. Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture https://www.kraken.com/culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/226090548-How-to-create-an-account-on-Kraken. As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/security-at-kraken, crypto education https://blog.kraken.com/category/crypto-education, and world-class client support https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/support-at-kraken through our products like Kraken Pro https://pro.kraken.com/, Desktop https://www.kraken.com/desktop, Wallet https://www.kraken.com/wallet, and Kraken Futures https://www.kraken.com/features/futures. Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto! PROOF OF WORK THE TEAM The Platform Team exists to accelerate engineering across Kraken by building and evolving the foundational infrastructure that powers development at scale. Its mission is to remove friction, solve systemic platform challenges, and ensure teams can ship quickly, reliably, and efficiently. The team defines and enforces engineering standards across APIs and services, improving consistency, performance, and scalability across the stack. It drives platform-wide architecture improvements, strengthens service interfaces, and ensures long-term maintainability as the system evolves. A core focus is performance and scale — proactively identifying bottlenecks, improving observability and tracing, and ensuring the platform stays ahead of production demands. The team establishes strong testing and performance baselines, enabling teams to automate stress testing and build confidently on a resilient foundation. Operating cross-functionally across engineering, the Platform Team works at every layer of the stack — from low-level networking to service architecture — strengthening the core systems that enable the entire organization to execute faster and at higher quality. THE OPPORTUNITY - Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to ensure Kraken's platform is reliable, secure, and scalable - Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influencing best practices in system design, testing, and performance optimization - Take ownership of system-wide architectural initiatives and shape long-term technical strategy - Contribute to the team’s incident response, root cause analysis, and system hardening efforts - Champion continuous improvement by introducing new tools, techniques, and technologies that raise the bar for backend engineering SKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL - 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-performance backend systems, preferably in finance, trading, or distributed environments - Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C++, Go, or Rust) and solid scripting knowledge in Python - Strong familiarity with Linux systems, including low-level debugging, concurrency, and profiling - Experience building and optimizing low-latency, high-throughput services handling large-scale ... (truncated, view full listing at source)