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# Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Core Services

- **Company:** Payward, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Network Service, Software Engineering, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pl4ntcf6sz

## About the Role

* 7+ years of software engineering experience
 * Experience building and scaling shared systems, internal platforms, and supporting multiple product roadmaps
 * Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
 * Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
 * Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
 * Apply a solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions
 * Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
 * Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries

## Description

Our Platform and Core Engineering teams build the systems that make Kraken secure, resilient, and scalable. Their impact isn't measured by customer-facing features, but by the strength, correctness, and leverage of the foundations they create. These teams power Kraken systems behind the scenes - enabling product teams to move fast while meeting the highest standards for reliability, compliance, and security.

Engineers design shared services, internal platforms, and critical infrastructure that support company-wide initiatives. They optimize for safety, scalability, observability, auditability, and operational excellence - often operating in regulated, security-sensitive, and risk-heavy environments where precision matters.

We're looking for engineers with deep systems ownership and an architecture-first mindset - builders who take pride in long-lived services, thrive in complex environments, and are motivated by strengthening the backbone of the crypto ecosystem.

The opportunity

 * Design and implement robust Rust services and foundational libraries that power Kraken's core infrastructure, prioritizing correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.
 * Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code built for scale, observability, and operational resilience in production environments.
 * Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, shaping low-latency, fault-tolerant services that support global trading and internal platforms.
 * Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-bar engineering culture grounded in ownership, rigor, and craftsmanship.


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