head of exchange infrastructure

Kraken is a crypto platform offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services to individual investors and institutional clients. Its products are built on a globally accessible financial infrastructure platform designed to advance an open, global financial system.

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the exchange layer, including the matching engine, core infrastructure, third-party custody, algo engine, and API engine
• Lead and grow a team of four to five product managers, and set the bar for product craft across the layer
• Consolidate multiple matching engines into one, starting with US derivatives, then international derivatives, then spot
• Build an interface-agnostic platform that product teams and interfaces can share
• Define success metrics, including p99 latency, throughput, uptime, and resiliency, and hold teams accountable to them
• Partner with engineering leaders across exchange and core infrastructure to sequence the migration without disrupting live markets
• Partner with Risk and Credit Infrastructure so clients can hold one account and trade every product against it
• Anticipate industry shifts and shape the platform to stay ahead
• Align product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams around the exchange strategy

• Senior product leadership experience in exchange, trading, or high-performance platforms
• Experience managing and developing product managers
• Able to work as a player-coach, owning roadmaps and writing specifications when needed
• Proven ability to set product vision and translate it into a long-term roadmap
• Strong understanding of matching engine and market data architecture, including low-latency tradeoffs
• Experience building platforms for internal customers and distinguishing platforms from bespoke builds
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for crypto markets, market structure, and building next-generation infrastructure
• Будет плюсом: an engineering background building or operating high-performance systems, experience across spot and derivatives venues, experience at a crypto exchange with comparable scale, volume, and uptime expectations, a track record of building platform roadmaps that interlock with adjacent product organizations

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific application deadline is stated
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• Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered consistently with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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