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Software Engineer – Rust Blockchain Platform
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
70 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer – Rust Blockchain Platform
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
• Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency services and libraries in Rust and TypeScript • Integrate our existing systems with exciting new blockchains • Build and maintain the systems that process over 1.2 billion operations daily across 120+ chains • Design data protection and access control systems where security is a first-class requirement • Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to define and deliver on their blockchain data needs • Contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and standards that raise the bar for the whole org
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in asynchronous Rust
- Experience with high-volume, distributed systems
- Familiarity with API design, including GraphQL and gRPC
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms
- Comfortable with core DevOps tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience with multiple blockchain ecosystems
- Experience working with or contributing to open-source blockchain clients
- Familiarity with relational databases, logging & monitoring systems, and cloud-based infrastructure providers
- Passionate about security, reliability, and performance
- Considerate of tomorrow’s engineer: clean code, clear documentation, meaningful tests
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive alignment across teams with different priorities
- Pragmatic – you know when to build the elegant solution and when to ship the working one
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Fully remote work options
- Crypto education opportunities
- Work-life balance
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