Key skills
TypeScriptRustDistributed systemsScalabilityPerformance optimizationCollaboration skillsPythonGoRubyDockerKubernetesTerraformRedisGitLab CI/CDGitLab CIGitLabPerformance OptimizationCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, seeking to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you will lead complex technical initiatives that impact user acquisition and retention, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and measurable in their impact.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical direction for key Growth initiatives, from experimentation platforms to global onboarding and engagement systems
- Design and evolve distributed, high-scale systems that power user acquisition and retention
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into reliable, measurable engineering solutions
- Mentor engineers across Product and Platform teams — guiding architecture, design, and execution
- Ensure high engineering standards across the stack: reliability, performance, security, and maintainability
- Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy
- Contribute to and influence the broader engineering culture by advocating for craftsmanship, impact, and accountability
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading large-scale technical projects or owning critical systems end to end
- Deep expertise in TypeScript or Rust, our core languages — and the versatility to work confidently across the full stack
- Broad technical range and curiosity — you're comfortable diving into any layer of the stack, from front-end performance to backend architecture and infrastructure
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
- Experience designing systems that balance experimentation velocity with long-term maintainability
- A product mindset — you think in terms of outcomes and user impact, not just code
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design
- Experience operating autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment
- You set the bar for technical excellence and embody the ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability we expect across the organization
- Background in growth engineering, experimentation platforms, or developer experience
- Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD
- Track record of influencing technical strategy across multiple teams or domains