Senior Rust Engineer - High Frequency Trading
Keyrock is a crypto market maker providing algorithmic liquidity, OTC trading, derivatives, and asset management services to institutions across centralized and decentralized venues.
Funding history
About Keyrock
Keyrock provides institutional digital asset trading services through proprietary algorithmic technology deployed across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Users can access market making, over-the-counter block trades, options structures for hedging and yield, and managed fund strategies. The firm operates across multiple regulated jurisdictions including Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, France, and the US.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You design, develop, and optimize low-latency, mission-critical trading systems. You own trading stack components from architecture through production operation, collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers, and improve system performance, stability, observability, and resilience. You troubleshoot production issues, provide technical leadership through code reviews and mentoring, automate operational tasks, and contribute to testing critical trading components.
Requirements
- Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance concurrent systems
- Tokio proficiency
- Systematic trading experience in HFT, market making, quantitative trading, or a similar environment
- Understanding of execution, market data, and operational risk
- AWS expertise
- Linux expertise
- Shell scripting
- Production debugging and troubleshooting
- Python or other scripting language proficiency
- FIX, REST, and WebSocket protocols
- Exchange connectivity
- Market data feeds
- TCP and UDP networking
- Packet and latency path analysis
- Dedicated network infrastructure
- DPDK and kernel bypass techniques
- LLMs, MCP APIs, AI-first IDEs, harness engineering, and workflow automation
- Architectural decision-making and trade-off analysis
- Technical leadership
- Mentoring
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize low-latency mission-critical trading systems
- Own key trading stack components from architecture through production operation
- Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to improve trading performance and resilience
- Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure for performance, stability, observability, and operational excellence
- Troubleshoot 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
- Evolve agentic engineering tooling
- Contribute to functional, component, and production-readiness testing
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work opportunity
