Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer
Builds and owns high-performance Rust services and libraries powering consumer trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The role requires 3+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems knowledge, asynchronous Rust expertise, and a security-first approach.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences, with emphasis 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 and translate evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
- Develop features and maintain consumer applications that provide simple ways for customers to interact with Kraken.
- Collaborate with product teams to gather requirements and constraints and design appropriate systems.
- Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to defining technical culture.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
- Security-first mindset during system design.
- Ability to autonomously debug issues across the operating system, network, and application layers.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven systems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product teams.
Benefits and Compensation
- Opportunity to work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers in a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
Skills
Rust, Distributed Systems, Rpc, Apache Kafka, Event-Driven Systems, Network Services, Asynchronous Programming, Security, Operating Systems, Networking
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