Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Lead business operations for Kraken Pro by establishing operating rhythms, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, tracking KPIs, supporting executive decisions, managing reporting and roadmaps, triaging inbound requests, and improving operational efficiency. The role partners with product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and marketing teams to launch initiatives across trading and infrastructure products and enhance the product experience.

Own operations and launch readiness for regulated B2B2C platform products, including KYC/KYB, lending, and unified APIs. Lead cross-functional roadmap execution, regulated-entity operations, licensing workstreams, operational risk, incident management, audits, examinations, and board reporting. Partner with regulators, Legal, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Finance, and external partners to establish governance, controls, documentation, and scalable operating processes.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Lead independent testing of IT controls for SOX compliance, focusing on access management, change management, and system operations in a crypto environment.

The Mobile UI/Design Engineer will enhance the Kraken app's UI with fluid, gesture-driven interactions in React Native, optimizing for performance and mentoring other engineers.

Build and ship agent orchestration workflows, integrations, and shared infrastructure for AI-driven growth across paid media, lifecycle, organic content, CRO, incentives, and referrals. Implement monitoring, audit logging, creative generation pipelines, and reliable integrations so domain experts can tune and operate workflows independently.

Supports global M&A, strategic investments, and venture portfolio management. Responsibilities include leading transaction diligence, maintaining data rooms, building financial models and valuation analyses, screening opportunities, tracking portfolio performance, forecasting deal-related cash obligations, and preparing executive and Board materials. The role requires strong financial modeling, business analysis, writing, storytelling, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority transactions independently.

Own the CRM and sales tooling strategy and roadmap for Kraken’s B2B sales organization. Prioritize competing stakeholder needs, define product requirements, improve CRM adoption and data quality, and coordinate Salesforce integrations and workflows across teams. Partner with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and leadership to address systemic product, process, integration, and data challenges. The role requires strong Salesforce Sales Cloud fluency, B2B sales process knowledge, analytical judgment, and the ability to translate ambiguous requests into scalable solutions.

Define and execute Kraken’s hybridization and on-chain product strategy across Pro and Consumer products. Own roadmaps, cross-functional execution, ecosystem partnerships, product metrics, experimentation, and the full lifecycle from discovery through iteration. Simplify complex on-chain experiences for consumers while aligning Engineering, Design, Growth, Security, Operations, Legal, and external partners.

Design and specify automated paid-growth workflows, collaborate with engineers to implement agent-driven campaigns, QA agent outputs, refine AI-generated creative, and extend automation to CRO, incentives, referrals, and lifecycle growth functions.

The Senior AI Compute Infrastructure Engineer will manage and optimize GPU and accelerator clusters for AI workloads, collaborate with teams, and ensure reliable performance and cost efficiency.

Design and verify secure architectures across infrastructure, applications, blockchain, Rust, and AI projects. Perform in-depth security assessments and audits, recommend mitigations, and embed with engineering teams to improve security posture and operational practices.

Lead and manage SOC 1/SOC 2 examinations and SOX 404 IT control activities; assess ITGCs/ITACs, perform gap and impact assessments, drive remediation, collect auditor-ready evidence, and partner cross-functionally to design scalable controls for cloud and hybrid environments.

Lead and evolve Payward's core brand system—guidelines, component libraries, templates and assets—ensuring coherent visual identity across brands. Define brand behavior for emerging surfaces and AI outputs, collaborate with pods to fix systemic issues, translate complex crypto and finance concepts into usable guidance, run constructive design reviews, and shape how design tooling and AI affect brand practice.

Lead and evolve Payward's core brand system: guidelines, component libraries, templates, and assets. Raise brand quality across product pods through systems thinking, guidance, and design reviews. Define identity standards for new surfaces (including AI and motion), collaborate with designers, PMs, and marketers, and translate complex crypto and finance concepts into usable brand guidance.

Lead Consumer Trading product initiatives for Kraken: prototype features with AI tools, define product requirements, run UAT, collaborate with stakeholders, finance and operations, use analytics and experimentation to drive product decisions, and evaluate new consumer product opportunities.

Lead risk-based operational and post-acquisition integration audits globally, assess control design and operating effectiveness, direct specialist SMEs, apply AI-enabled auditing and data analytics, manage multiple engagements end-to-end, report findings to senior stakeholders, and mentor audit teams.

Operate and improve a shared telemetry platform for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and profiling. Maintain collection, storage, querying, routing, and pipelines; troubleshoot production telemetry issues; deploy and manage services with IaC and container orchestration; build automation for dashboards and alerts; participate in incident response, on-call, and runbook documentation.

Operate and evolve an OpenStack-based private cloud and Ceph storage, troubleshoot full-stack issues, handle feature requests and support tickets, build automation and tooling, document runbooks, integrate storage with Kubernetes, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform reliability.

Own product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for fraud and ATO solutions. Lead end-to-end feature delivery, define APIs, workflows, and operational processes, coordinate with engineering, legal, finance, risk and vendors, and build case management, detection, and investigation systems that protect users while minimizing friction.