Engineering Manager - Earn

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• 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!