Head of Trading Infrastructure

@ Kraken

About Kraken

Building the Future of Crypto. Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by a desire to unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values and dedicated to accelerating global crypto adoption to achieve financial freedom and inclusion.

The Role

As the Head of Trading Infrastructure, you will set the vision and strategy for the systems powering our exchange. Your focus is on building a product roadmap for trading performance to ensure that our platform is the fastest, most reliable, and most trusted place to trade.

• Own product vision and roadmap for trading infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering to design low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Translate market needs into key infrastructure priorities and features.
• Define success metrics including latency, resiliency, uptime, and throughput.
• Align cross-functional teams around infrastructure strategy.

Skills You Should HODL

• Senior product leader experience in exchange or high-performance platforms.
• Proven ability to set a product vision and develop a long-term roadmap.
• Strong grasp of trading system architecture and its impact on user experience.
• Excellent communication skills for influencing diverse stakeholders.
• A passion for crypto markets and market structure.

Additional Information

This is a fully remote position with Krakenites based in over 70 countries. Applications are ongoing.

Please review Kraken's culture and learn how to create a Kraken account before applying.

Key skills/competency

• trading
• infrastructure
• product
• crypto
• low-latency
• high-throughput
• order matching
• system design
• roadmap
• architecture