1 day ago
USA (city not specified) +22 moreMid Level
Base Salary
$96k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve build and release pipelines in GitHub Actions with caching, parallelism, pinned toolchains, required tests, and production scans.
- Manage AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and operate containerized services on Nomad.
- Build deployment tooling with health checks and automated rollback, including safeguards around market sessions.
- Add metrics and alerts to services and monitor systems to verify deployment health.
- Respond to production alerts and support operational activities such as settlement cycles and on-call shifts.
- Diagnose the causes of production issues and document lessons learned.
- Build, test, review, and ship Haskell features and fixes across exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage services.
- Design database schemas, queries, and migrations while understanding order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with Haskell, Rust, C++, or another functional or strongly typed programming language.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Production experience with AWS and Docker, and infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform.
- Strong Linux and scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
- Solid computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems failure modes, retries, idempotency, consistency, and observability across services.
- Willingness to participate in on-call and operational shifts.
- Care and rigor when developing code that moves money.
- Ability to use AI tools judiciously by reviewing, testing, and understanding generated output before shipping.
- Sound judgment under pressure, a calm and methodical production approach, and strong collaboration and documentation habits.
- Financial, trading, markets, or financial-services knowledge is preferred.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
- Experience with Nomad or Kubernetes is preferred.
- Experience with Nix, Ansible, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or Haskell is preferred.
Tech Stack
About Kraken
Kraken builds a global digital asset trading platform for individuals and institutions, offering spot, margin, futures, staking, OTC, and related infrastructure. The company generates revenue primarily from trading and financing fees and institutional services. Founded in 2011 and operated by privately held Payward, it is remote-first and serves customers worldwide; it has published cryptographic Proof of Reserves since 2014 to verify client asset holdings.