Senior Rust Engineer — Remote, Low-Latency Trading

Keyrock; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 150.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work

Flexible hours

Merit-based compensation

Zusammenfassung

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

The role requires passion for the Rust ecosystem, designing, building, and operating mission‑critical trading systems, and a track record in

Qualifikationen

• Production-grade Rust experience building high‑performance, concurrent systems; Tokio is a strong advantage.
• Hands‑on experience in a systematic trading environment (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading, or similar) with understanding of execution, market data, and risk.
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise, including cloud infrastructure trade-offs for latency‑sensitive workloads, shell scripting, debugging, and production troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages for strategy development, automation, and tooling.
• Deep familiarity with trading system protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket), exchange connectivity, and market data feeds.
• Solid grasp of low‑latency networking: TCP/UDP, latency path analysis, dedicated infrastructure, and kernel bypass (DPDK).
• Familiarity with agentic engineering tools: LLMs, MCP APIs, AI‑First IDEs, automation.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions and guide implementations across complex systems.

Aufgaben

• Design, develop, and optimise low-latency, mission‑critical trading systems.
• Own key trading stack components end‑to‑end—from architecture to production operation.
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to improve performance and resilience.
• Maintain and evolve trading infrastructure focusing on performance, stability, observability, and operability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and market data handling.
• Drive engineering standards through leadership, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Embrace agentic engineering: AI‑assisted workflows and automation of tasks.
• Contribute to testing for functional and production readiness of critical components.

Kenntnisse

Rust

HFT experience

AWS

Linux

Python scripting

Trading protocols

Low latency networking

Tokio

Architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

DPDK

Git

Linux shell

Jobbeschreibung

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

The role requires passion for the Rust ecosystem, designing, building, and operating mission‑critical trading systems, and a track record in