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Kraken, one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms (founded 2011), is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Pro team, which owns the trading backend services including the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various trading services. The team is globally distributed and works with Rust and C++ across agile sub-teams.
In this role, you will design and implement robust Rust and C++ services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact. You will write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security. You will collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions. You will work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust and C++ engineers in a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.
Key responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries, autonomous debugging across the stack (OS, network, application), and effective collaboration with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for system design.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building financial trading focused products
- Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
- Experience with modern C++, including performance-sensitive, low-latency systems
- Security-first mindset during system design
- Ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies (RPC protocols, Kafka, Event-Driven Systems)
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product teams
- Complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
