Engineering Manager, Earn

About Kraken

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. Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto for financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on its mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

As a fully remote company, Krakenites operate in 70+ countries, speaking over 50 languages. We are industry pioneers developing premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

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The Earn Core Pod

The Earn Core Pod is responsible for the shared backend and blockchain systems that power all Earn products across the ecosystem. This team owns the core earnings service, staking and blockchain integrations, and the asynchronous infrastructure that calculates, distributes, and reconciles rewards at a global scale. Operating at the center of Earn, the pod partners closely with other Earn squads as well as Blockchain, Funding, and Infrastructure teams to ensure correctness, reliability, and operational excellence across mission-critical financial systems.

The Opportunity as Engineering Manager, Earn

• Own the core earnings service that drives reward calculation, rate setting, and distribution across all Earn products.
• Lead development and operation of asynchronous systems that power earnings pipelines, including background jobs, event processing, and reward distribution flows.
• Own all blockchain and staking services, including on-chain integrations and off-chain coordination for staking flows.
• Drive correctness, scalability, resiliency, and recovery of reward pipelines, including reconciliation and monitoring.
• Own the Earn Control Center (Admin/ECC) surface used to safely configure, operate, and audit earnings systems.
• Partner with other Earn squads and platform teams to define ownership boundaries and ensure reliable system integration.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for distributed systems, asynchronous architectures, and blockchain integrations.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and long-term reliability improvements for core earnings infrastructure.
• Coordinate necessary changes across Krak, Consumer, and Pro applications to support Core Pod initiatives.

Skills You Should HODL

• Proven experience leading backend or platform-focused engineering teams.
• Deep experience owning and operating mission-critical distributed systems in production.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous architectures, event-driven systems, and background processing.
• Experience designing and running high-throughput, fault-tolerant pipelines with strong correctness guarantees.
• Hands-on experience with blockchain integrations and on-chain/off-chain coordination.
• Strong understanding of staking mechanisms, reward calculation, and yield-generating systems.
• Experience managing services interacting with smart contracts and blockchain nodes.
• Fluency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages.
• Strong operational mindset, including incident response, monitoring, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and surface risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly.

Nice to Haves

• Experience operating financial or crypto-native systems at global scale.
• Familiarity with security considerations in blockchain and financial infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of frontend systems to support cross-surface changes when required.

Key skills/competency

• Backend Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Blockchain Integration
• Asynchronous Architectures
• Staking Mechanisms
• Rust/Go
• Incident Response
• System Reliability
• Team Leadership
• Crypto-Native Systems