Senior Rust Engineer - Remote High-Frequency Trading

Keyrock; Bahrain; On-site; BHD 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote work with flexible hours

Global teammates

Job summary

Keyrock is a global crypto market maker seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join the Capital Markets division. You will design, build, and operate low-latency trading infrastructure, collaborating with quants and traders to improve performance and reliability.

The role offers remote, international collaboration within a profitable, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Rust production-grade experience building high-performance, concurrent systems.
• Experience in systematic trading environments (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading).
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise for latency-sensitive workloads.
• Familiarity with trading protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket) and market data feeds.
• Ability to design scalable architectures and mentor engineers.

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: AI-assisted workflows, automation of operational tasks, and agentic tooling
• Contribute to functional, component, and production-readiness testing for critical trading components

Skills

Production-grade Rust

High-frequency trading experience

AWS & Linux

Python scripting

Trading system protocols (FIX/REST/Web

Low-latency networking

Agentic engineering concepts

Job description

Keyrock is a global crypto market maker seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience and strong AWS knowledge to join the Capital Markets division. You will design, build, and operate low-latency trading infrastructure, collaborating with quants and traders to improve performance and reliability.

The role offers remote, international collaboration within a profitable, fast-paced environment.