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.
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The team
The Blockchain Platform team is the connective tissue of Kraken's engineering organization. Every team that touches blockchain data depends on the infrastructure we build. We abstract away the complexity of dozens of different chain protocols, so that teams across Kraken can move fast without becoming blockchain experts themselves.
We own the systems that handle node interactions, block ingestion & parsing, balance tracking, and on-chain data at scale. The work is technically demanding, the surface area is broad, and the impact is direct: if we do our job well, the rest of Kraken does theirs better.
The opportunity
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
Skills you should HODL
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