Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Develop and maintain core components for a low-latency trading engine at Kraken, focusing on messaging solutions and system optimization.

Own end-to-end product analytics for the Pro team: build production-grade pipelines and dbt models, define north-star metrics, design A/B tests and causal inference frameworks, create dashboards and metric frameworks, embed AI tooling, and translate insights into product recommendations for leadership.

Designs and automates organic growth workflows for SEO and AEO, builds content brief pipelines, monitors LLM visibility, QA's AI content outputs, and extends automation across growth functions.

Design and specify automated paid-growth workflows, collaborate with engineers to implement agent-driven campaigns, QA agent outputs, refine AI-generated creative, and extend automation to CRO, incentives, referrals, and lifecycle growth functions.

Lead Kraken Consumer's global paid acquisition strategy across paid search, social, app acquisition, display, video, affiliates and KOLs. Manage budgets and measurement frameworks, drive experimentation and conversion optimisation, partner cross-functionally, and build high-performing performance marketing and affiliate teams to scale customer acquisition and long-term value.

Lead technology change oversight, licensing strategy, and governance for Kraken's regulated entities. Coordinate cross-functional change assessments, testing, validation, remediation, and regulatory submissions while driving licensing, market-entry, and product expansion strategy. Develop policies, controls, inventories, metrics, and governance tooling to manage operational and technology risk and support senior stakeholder reporting.

The Senior AI Compute Infrastructure Engineer will manage and optimize GPU and accelerator clusters for AI workloads, collaborate with teams, and ensure reliable performance and cost efficiency.

Lead and scale Kraken Pro's global KOL/affiliate program: build BD team and processes, source/contract/manage KOLs, ensure compliance, drive creative regional campaigns, measure ROI, and deepen partner engagement.

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 a portfolio of payment rails across methods and geographies to improve authorization rates, settlement speed, and user conversion. Drive partner integrations, backend and frontend initiatives, compliance-aligned flows, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization across consumer, pro, and external interfaces.

Lead and oversee daily operations of Kraken's European EMI, ensuring regulatory compliance (EMI/PSR), risk and fraud management, outsourcing oversight, operational resilience, technology and security alignment, customer experience, and strategic planning. Serve as Executive Director (PCF-1) and PCF-42 (COO) subject to Central Bank approval, liaise with stakeholders, and report to CEO and board.

Lead and maintain PESL's AML/CFT framework as Money Laundering Reporting Officer. Oversee risk assessments, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, suspicious reporting, regulatory engagement, policy development, remediation, training, and embedding controls across product, operations, and technology. Build automated, data-driven compliance systems and support new products, outsourcing, and cross-border launches.

Lead PESL's regulatory compliance framework as the designated PCF-12, manage a small team, maintain CBI relationships, implement EU crypto and AML/MiCA rules, deploy automation and AI to scale controls, advise product and exec teams, oversee monitoring, training, policy development, and license applications.

Lead design and execution of the EU compliance monitoring and testing program. Conduct reviews, identify control gaps, advise business on regulatory obligations (AML/CFT, PSD2, EMR), implement policies, support product rollouts, regulatory reporting, training, and remediation. Drive automation and tech-enabled scaling of compliance processes.

Own and harden the edge and ingress layer: design and operate Cloudflare edge configuration, DNS, mTLS/PKI, HAProxy-based reverse proxies, Kubernetes ingress controllers, Istio service mesh, and related observability. Build Terraform-based self-service automation, extend edge logic with Cloudflare Workers/R2, partner with Security for DDoS and OWASP defenses, lead incident response and on-call, and mentor other engineers.

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.

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

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 risk management for Kraken's regulated entity, focusing on risk identification, assessment, and monitoring across products and regions; ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.