Staff Software Engineer – Special Projects @ Chairman Office at Kraken

This role is for a seasoned systems engineer who likely has experience as a tech lead or engineering manager but wants to return to hands-on coding. You should be a high-output contributor with deep expertise in Rust or C++ and a strong intuition for designing distributed services and latency-sensitive backend infrastructure. **What makes it worth a look...** You get to work in a high-trust, elite pod directly under the Chairman's Office, tackling ambiguous special projects that integrate AI with core crypto exchange infrastructure. It is a fully remote position across various European time zones, offering the rare chance to influence the foundational primitives of a major global platform. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have built and operated complex distributed systems using Rust or Go in production environments. * Are comfortable navigating low-level networking, concurrency models, and performance bottlenecks. * Use AI agentic tools to accelerate your own coding velocity and improve system observability. * Previously held leadership roles but prefer shipping code and solving deep technical architecture puzzles.