Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Lead the Pro team to design, develop, and deliver frontend systems for Kraken's trading interface, focusing on user experience and mentoring engineers.

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.

Lead and execute technology audits across cybersecurity, cloud, IAM, SDLC, data/privacy, operational resilience, and AI governance. Plan fieldwork, test ITGCs and application controls against frameworks, document findings, manage remediation, and coordinate with stakeholders and co-sourced teams to improve control environments.

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.

Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters across datacenters, triage infrastructure issues, build automation and tooling, collaborate with SRE/Networking/Security, support engineering teams, and participate in on-call rotation 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.

Lead end-to-end M&A and venture transactions: source and evaluate opportunities, build pro forma financial models and valuations, coordinate due diligence, negotiate terms, drive integration planning, advise leadership, build industry networks, mentor team members, and improve corporate development processes.

The Senior Database Administrator will lead the management of PostgreSQL clusters, improve automation, enhance security, and support vector data platforms, partnering with teams to scale and ensure operational excellence.

Provide frontline trading support across Kraken platforms (spot, margin, futures, desktop), resolve trading and crypto DW issues, assist QA/training, calculate fees/margin/P&L for clients, and collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering teams.

Design and build audit-ready data architecture and ETL pipelines, maintain inventories/playbooks/catalogs for audit, implement automated validation and monitoring, assess change impacts, and translate audit requirements into technical specifications for stakeholders.

Lead program management and coordination between the Data team and Audit, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors. Own continuous audit readiness by building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, catalogs, tagging and governance processes, and auditor access controls. Translate audit engagements into repeatable, documented responses and run mock testing to identify improvements and reengineering needs.

Lead Kraken's Data Platform team focused on real-time infrastructure for data systems, managing team dynamics, architecture design, and promoting AI automation.

Build, own, and improve enterprise IAM tooling (Okta, ConductorOne); implement RBAC/ABAC/JIT models; partner with compliance (SOX, PCI-DSS, ISO27001); integrate identities during M&A; mentor junior engineers; script automation and reporting for IAM operations.

As the AI Agents Solutions Architect at Kraken, you'll design and build an AI-native finance operating system, automating finance operations and ensuring compliance in a regulated environment.

Lead Krak's visual identity and art direction across product, marketing, and campaigns. Drive brand refreshes, 3D asset creation, motion systems, illustration, Figma design systems, automation for multi-market localization, and AI-assisted production while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role involves architecting AI solutions for compliance, ensuring regulatory adherence, automating processes, and enhancing team capabilities through technology and training.