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Company: Kraken

Role: Senior Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure

Location: United Kingdom; Argentina; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada; Costa Rica; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Estonia; Hungary; Ireland; Latvia; Mexico; Panama; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain, Remote

Experience:

5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems
Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads
Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems

Key Skills:

Rust
systems-level programming
distributed systems
reliability engineering
performance optimization
ML infrastructure
model serving
MLOps

Role Focus: • Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production • Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution • Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput • Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring • Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows • Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers • Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems • Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment

Nice to have:

Experience building infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems
Background in high-performance networking, async systems, or low-latency architectures
Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale
Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 or platform-building teams

Other:

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