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Job Overview

Job Title Senior Cryptography Engineer
Hiring Organization Kraken
Company Website https://www.kraken.com/
Remote Locations Worldwide
Job Type Remote, Full-Time

Join our new Incubation team and have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing transformation of the digital assets industry at Kraken. Our team plays a crucial role in identifying problems in the industry and delivering novel solutions.

As a member of the Incubation team, you will have the chance to collaborate with highly skilled Rust Engineers, cryptographers, and on-chain experts from around the world. We are enthusiastic about open source, Layer 2 technologies, zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and continuously strive to explore the potential of on chain scaling solutions. Our collaborative work environment allows us to stay ahead in the ever-changing crypto landscape. The team has recently embarked on exploring how more protocols and decentralized applications can be integrated into Kraken. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute towards shaping the future of on-chain at Kraken. This is a fully remote role.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don’t fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you’re passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Job Responsibilities

Design and implementation of cryptographic protocols
Design and implementation of layer 2 solutions
Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
Implementation of smart contracts
Freedom to pursue independent research
Attend conferences and find opportunities in the on-chain ecosystem

Job Requirements

5+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience working with modern cryptography (ZKP, MPC, FHE)
Deep understanding of applied cryptography
Experience in technical writing and documentation
Experience interacting with Bitcoin and Ethereum
Experience with assembly and other low level programming
Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system
Leadership in defining technical requirements and drive projects through to completion
Assume technical responsibility of complex systems, identify opportunities for innovative research and development
Act as technical leader, mentor others in the company to bring their ideas to proof of concepts and beyond
Have experience with system languages (C, C++, Go) and/or strongly typed programming (OCaml, Haskell, Rust)
Be passionate about secure, reliable and fast software