Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture values and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here .

As a fully remote company we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders institutions and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security crypto education and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro Kraken NFT and Kraken Futures .

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

Our team is at the forefront of security at Kraken: We provide security architecture and review services on almost all new products projects and everything else that requires security.

Our goal is to ensure the security of our customers and the company: We achieve this by providing deeply technical and practical security advice and not being afraid of becoming an individual contributor where necessary.

The entire team are hands-on practitioners and highly-technical researchers not just paper reviewers.

The opportunity

• Solve (crypto & blockchain) security problems that often have not been solved on a large-scale before

• Drive as a lead the security architecture and implementation of products

• Provide deeply technical security advice to new and existing projects

• Review on documentation and code-level products build on top of a wide variety of tech-stacks

• Create “productively paranoid” threat-models and other security documentation

• Nurture security talent in the engineering teams sharing knowledge whenever possible

• Build the next generation of secure crypto products

Skills you should HODL

• Significant hands-on security testing expertise from code-review to pentesting

• High technical knowledge on a wide variety of tech-stacks (we are not looking for specifics - we want to see a wide knowledge and will specialize you wherever necessary!)

• Significant expertise in threat-modeling

• Significant expertise in the usage of cryptography

• Knowledge in reverse-engineering

• Passion for secure computing

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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age date of birth or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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.

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