Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Owns viral growth, referrals, creator and KOL acquisition for Kraken’s consumer products. Sets new transacting user targets, builds sharing and referral systems, manages the KOL platform roadmap, improves creator tools, and optimizes acquisition economics. Responsibilities include funnel and cohort analysis, experimentation, instrumentation validation, fraud-cost management, and cross-functional execution across product, engineering, design, data, and marketing.

Lead the assessment, architecture, and improvement of large-scale database infrastructure centered on MariaDB. Diagnose failures, tune performance, strengthen replication, backups, disaster recovery, observability, and reliability. Build production automation for provisioning, upgrades, failover, and schema changes. Partner with application teams on data design, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical decisions, and participate in incident response.

Conduct end-to-end information security risk assessments, document and track findings, maintain risk registers, develop KRIs and reporting, and improve scalable risk workflows. Partner with technical, compliance, audit, engineering, and legal teams to contextualize and remediate risks. Support audit readiness and automate risk processes within Kraken’s Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance program.

Own security governance, risk, and compliance integration for acquired companies. Assess security posture, map controls to internal and external frameworks, score maturity, define and track remediation milestones, manage entity risks, support external audits, maintain policy coverage, and coordinate with M&A technology teams, acquired leadership, auditors, and control owners across jurisdictions.

Build and maintain Haskell services for a regulated derivatives exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage. Design database schemas, constraints, indexes, queries, and reversible migrations for financial data. Optimize production queries, monitor systems, respond to alerts, support settlement operations, and resolve production issues. Collaborate across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance while ensuring correctness, auditability, and reliability of systems handling orders, trades, and settlements.

Build and operate DevOps infrastructure for regulated digital-asset exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems. Responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines, managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, running containerized services on Nomad, developing deployment tooling with health checks and rollback, monitoring systems, responding to production alerts, supporting settlement operations, and contributing to Haskell-based services. The role requires on-call participation, distributed-systems expertise, and collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance.

Own the assessment, architecture, roadmap, and hands-on improvement of a large-scale database estate centered on MariaDB. Lead reliability, performance, replication, disaster recovery, observability, provisioning, migrations, and database automation. Partner with application teams on schemas and data-store decisions, investigate complex incidents, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep MariaDB expertise, strong software engineering skills, Linux and infrastructure fundamentals, and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Manage Kraken’s global equity administration, including cap table maintenance, equity plan transactions, option exercises, vesting, tax withholding, reconciliations, participant support, audits, secondary transactions, and stock transfers. Partner with Legal, Finance, HR, Payroll, Corporate Governance, auditors, and external stakeholders to maintain accurate reporting, compliance, and efficient equity programs worldwide.

Lead US operations for Kraken Securities and xStocks, overseeing equity order flow, clearing, settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions, token issuance, asset movements, regulatory controls, vendors, incident response, and launch readiness. Serve as a registered principal, build scalable operating procedures and teams, manage KPIs and costs, and partner with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, and external market infrastructure providers.

Supports global talent acquisition operations, including interview scheduling, executive hiring coordination, pre-boarding, background checks, candidate communications, and new-hire setup. Maintains accurate records in Ashby and Workday, coordinates across time zones, applies hiring policies, identifies risks, and partners with recruiters, hiring managers, executive assistants, and onboarding teams to deliver an efficient candidate and hiring experience.

Own business operations for Payward Services, including partner launch readiness, business planning, leadership reporting, operating cadence, process automation, and strategic cross-functional initiatives. Build repeatable launch processes, integrate new products and acquisitions into operating rhythms, track performance metrics, and improve workflows across Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance.

Design and operate production infrastructure for AI agent systems, including high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution. Build scalable distributed systems, MLOps capabilities, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery for millions of users. Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost while partnering with agent systems and infrastructure teams to harden experimental prototypes for production.

Own end-to-end product design for zero-to-one AI products serving external consumers and internal teams. Lead discovery, research, concept development, prototyping, delivery, and launch while designing trustworthy experiences for non-deterministic intelligent systems. Partner directly with product, engineering, and leadership to influence strategy and roadmap decisions, test ideas rapidly, and maintain a high bar for visual craft, usability, and scalable design systems.

Owns the end-to-end creation of paid performance video for Kraken Consumer across launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing activity. Responsibilities include concepting, producing, editing, AI-assisted generation, platform-specific adaptation, localization, testing, and regulatory approval. The role interprets creative performance data to improve future concepts and cuts, supports paid static creative, maintains high production standards, and collaborates with marketing, compliance, product, and regional teams.

Leads AML transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, scenario design, and alert reduction. Drives FIU automation and workflow improvements, evaluates AI-enabled compliance tools, and partners with Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and vendors on monitoring infrastructure and integrations. Supports scalable compliance controls across new products, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes while maintaining regulatory alignment and detection effectiveness.

Supports the broker-dealer compliance program by conducting risk assessments, monitoring KYC, CIP, suitability, sanctions, and communications surveillance, updating supervisory procedures, reviewing marketing materials, managing regulatory reporting, onboarding compliance activities, and assisting with audits and examinations. The role requires collaboration with leadership, HR, and business teams to remediate issues and adapt compliance controls to evolving FINRA, SEC, and state requirements.

Leads the vision, architecture, modernization, and operation of Kraken’s financial systems. The role manages engineering teams, establishes financial data quality and lineage standards, improves ledgers and reconciliations, supports crypto and traditional finance integrations, and partners with Finance, Product, Risk, Security, Compliance, and Engineering leaders. It also oversees migration, testing, observability, controls, incident response, and transformation roadmaps while maintaining reliable financial operations.

Build and operate trusted finance data products, pipelines, models, reconciliations, dashboards, and automation. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to resolve data issues, improve reporting, support financial close, establish data lake quality controls, and enable timely insights. Use SQL, Python, dbt, Spark, Airflow, and AI-assisted tools to deliver tested, traceable, production-ready solutions.

Designs high-quality 2D and 3D brand creative for product launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing marketing. Builds Cinema 4D assets, Figma systems, component libraries, templates, and localization-ready campaign kits. Extends the consumer brand across web, social, lifecycle, illustration, and partner initiatives. Collaborates with marketing, compliance, regional, motion, web, and AI video teams while maintaining strong creative standards and working effectively within regulatory constraints.

Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO office in a Co-CEO model: manage complex calendars, coordinate domestic and international travel (commercial and private aviation), prepare briefing materials, oversee budgets/expenses, track projects and events, and liaise with stakeholders to streamline executive operations.