Rust Engineer - Trading Systems
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About the Role
Keyrock seeks a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join the Capital Markets division. You will design, develop, and optimize low-latency, mission-critical trading systems, owning key components end-to-end.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimise low latency, mission critical trading systems
- Own key trading stack components end to end from architecture through production operation
- Collaborate closely with quants, traders, and engineers to improve trading performance and resilience
- Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure with focus on performance, 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
- Embrace agentic engineering principles: leverage AI assisted workflows and drive automation
Requirements
- Production grade Rust experience building high performance, concurrent systems
- Hands on experience in a systematic trading environment (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading, or similar)
- Strong AWS and Linux expertise
- Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages
- Deep familiarity with trading system protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket) and exchange connectivity
- Solid grasp of low latency networking: TCP/UDP, packet analysis, kernel bypass techniques (DPDK)
- Excellent communication skills and team player mindset
Full Job Posting
About Keyrock
- Keyrock is a leading change maker in the digital asset space, founded in 2017.
- The team has over 200 members from 42 nationalities, with hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore, and Paris.
- Services include market making, options trading, high frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.
Mission Statement
- We are seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join our core Capital Markets division.
- Candidates with a passion for the Rust ecosystem and a proven track record designing, building, and operating mission critical trading systems will be at a significant advantage.
- This role is open to candidates located in European time zones.
Job Description
- Design, develop, and optimise low latency, mission critical trading systems.
- Own key trading stack components end to end — from architecture through to production operation.
- Collaborate closely with quants, traders, and engineers to deliver solutions that improve trading performance and resilience.
- Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure with a focus on performance, 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.
- Embrace agentic engineering principles: leverage AI assisted workflows, drive automation of operational tasks, and help evolve the team's agentic tooling.
- Contribute to functional, component, and production readiness testing for critical trading components.
Background and Experience Technical Skills
- Production grade Rust experience building high performance, concurrent systems; proficiency with Tokio is a strong advantage.
- Hands on experience in a systematic trading environment (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading, or similar), with solid understanding of execution, market data, and operational risk.
- Strong AWS and Linux expertise, including cloud infrastructure trade offs for latency sensitive workloads, shell scripting, debugging, and production troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages for strategy development, automation, and operational tooling.
- Deep familiarity with trading system protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket), exchange connectivity, and market data feeds.
- Solid grasp of low latency networking: TCP/UDP, packet and latency path analysis, dedicated network infrastructure, and kernel bypass techniques (DPDK).
- Familiarity with agentic engineering tools and concepts: LLMs, MCP APIs, AI First IDEs (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code), harness engineering, and workflow automation.
- Ability to make sound architectural decisions, articulate trade offs clearly, and guide implementation across complex systems.
Seniority & Competencies
- Ownership & Reliability – Take full responsibility for your work. Deliver high quality service, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
- Initiative & Problem Solving – Approach challenges with a problem solving entrepreneurial mindset.
- Operational Diligence – Respond strategically to technical and operational challenges.
- Technical Leadership – Influence system design, raise engineering standards, mentor other engineers.
- Curiosity & Growth Mindset – Continuously seek to improve your technical skills and knowledge.
- Agentic Engineering – Embrace AI assisted workflows and autonomous agents.
- Excellent Communication Skills with a team player mindset, collaborating within a fully remote global team.
Our Offer
- A competitive salary package.
- Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
- The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence.
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