Rust Engineer - Trading Systems

Rust Engineer - Trading Systems

About Keyrock

Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation.

Today, we rock with over 200 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore and Paris, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight.

We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.

But we’re more than a service provider. We’re an initiator. We're pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives.

At Keyrock, we're not just envisioning the future of digital assets. We're actively building it.

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.

As part of the engineering team in Capital Markets, you will take ownership of high-impact trading infrastructure, set technical direction in your domain, and drive continuous improvement in system performance, reliability, and operability. You will join a highly-profitable, fast-paced division within Keyrock, where you will be expected to make a senior individual-contributor impact while collaborating with a global, fully-remote team. 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