Senior Rust Engineer – High Frequency Trading

About the role

Keyrock is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to join its Capital Markets division. The role focuses on building and operating low‑latency, mission‑critical trading systems for high‑frequency trading in the digital‑asset space. The position is fully remote, targeting candidates located in European time zones.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimise low‑latency trading infrastructure using Rust.
• Own end‑to‑end components of the trading stack, from architecture to production operation.
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to improve performance and resilience.
• Maintain and evolve infrastructure with emphasis on stability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and market‑data handling.
• Drive engineering standards through technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Leverage AI‑assisted workflows and automate operational tasks.
• Contribute to functional, component, and production‑readiness testing for critical trading components.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating mission‑critical trading systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud‑native deployment.
• Passion for the Rust ecosystem and a track record of delivering high‑performance code.
• Ability to work independently as a senior individual contributor while collaborating with a global, fully‑remote team.
• Located in a European time zone and comfortable with remote work.

Required skills

• Rust
• AWS
• Linux operating systems
• Network programming and low‑latency optimization
• Performance tuning and observability tools
• CI/CD pipelines
• Version control (Git)