Senior Rust Engineer - Low-Latency Trading (Remote)

Keyrock; Bahrain; On-site; BHD 45,120 - 67,680; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Remote work

Entrepreneurial environment

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join our Capital Markets division. You will own high‑impact trading infrastructure, set technical direction, and drive reliability in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

As part of a profitable, fast-paced group, you will collaborate with quants and traders to optimize latency, ensure production readiness, and push forward the use of AI-assisted tooling and autonomous workflows

Qualifications

• 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, including cloud infrastructure trade-offs for latency-sensitive workloads.
• 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, kernel bypass techniques (DPDK).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rust

Trading systems

AWS

Linux

Python

Trading protocols

Low-latency networking

Agentic engineering

Tools

DPDK

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join our Capital Markets division. You will own high‑impact trading infrastructure, set technical direction, and drive reliability in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

As part of a profitable, fast-paced group, you will collaborate with quants and traders to optimize latency, ensure production readiness, and push forward the use of AI-assisted tooling and autonomous workflows