Rust Engineer - Platform Trading

Job Title

Rust Engineer - Platform Trading

Company

Keyrock

Overview

Keyrock is a leading digital asset market maker engaged in high frequency trading, options, OTC and DeFi. We build scalable trading platforms, using Rust for algorithmic trading and constructing a robust, low latency data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high performance backend services and APIs using Rust, ensuring low latency and high availability for critical trading data platforms.
• Develop seamless integrations between live trading operations (exchanges/DeFi) and backoffice systems, automating workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Deploy and manage services in a cloud native environment, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform to scale infrastructure as code.
• Maintain GitOps driven workflows, ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines and implementing deep system observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for rapid incident response.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies (SQL/NoSQL), balancing query performance, cost efficiency, and data integrity in a high volume financial environment.
• Engineer solutions with a "Security First" mindset, ensuring strict adherence to compliance standards and secure handling of sensitive financial data.
• Partner with Product Managers, Risk teams, and other engineers to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical specifications and features.
• Actively participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor fellow engineers to foster a culture of high code quality and innovation.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in the Rust ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain technologies to continuously refine the platform's capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data intensive, large scale, high performance trading data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Rust (or C++), Python, and TypeScript for system development and automation in the financial services industry.
• Good understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and stream processing.
• Experience with financial services data workflows, including trading, middle office, and back office operations.
• Extensive experience in cloud native architectures, with proficiency in AWS.
• Proficient in GitOps tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.
• Strong background in DevSecFinOps, ensuring compliance, security, and cost efficiency across the development lifecycle.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring tools.

Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Autonomy in 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 that seeks excellence

EEO Statement

Keyrock is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome employees of all backgrounds and hire, reward, and promote entirely based on merit and performance.