Building the Future of Crypto 

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.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Kraken NFT, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The Team

This teams mission is to enable business growth through acquisitions and external partnerships while preserving and enhancing Kraken's industry leading security, technology programs, and culture.

This team focuses on integrating acquisitions and external partnerships into Kraken’s security and IT business as usual. From initial diligence of an acquisition target through post-close integration into Kraken, this team acts as a single point of contact for the security team to make M&A efforts successful. The team solves problems focused within security tooling, security workflows, technology implementation, infrastructure engineering, and crypto custody operations.

Join a growing team who works on some of the most exciting components of Kraken. The role focuses on both interesting technology components and the excitement of the acquisition deal negotiations alongside one of the best corporate development teams in the financial services industry.

Work with the wide variety of teams within Kraken’s best-in-class security program, including red team, kraken security labs, application security, identity and access management, corporate security, blue team, cloud security, and risk management, as well as fraud, customer engagement and account management, infrastructure engineering, data operations, and human resources.

Kraken and the crypto industry are required to engage in inorganic growth through acquisitions and partnerships, which can be challenging to fit into security and IT’s business as usual. A scrappy team is required to solve these challenges. This team has high-level organizational buy-in and the opportunity to develop a world-class program while working on a wide variety of these highly impactful projects.

The Opportunity

Security Diligence: 

• Conduct due diligence on security and IT components of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and vendor engagements

• Evaluate vendor footprint, cybersecurity posture, IT infrastructure, and technology stack of target companies

Risk Assessment: 

• Identify and assess security risks and IT challenges associated with potential third party engagements

• Form a holistic understanding of their attack surface and what risks & mitigation strategies Kraken should consider with the engagement

Technical Project Management: 

• Manage security and IT projects, advocate for technical action, and communicate across multiple teams

• Collaborate with Securit