Senior Rust Engineer — Remote, Low-Latency HFT

Keyrock; Paris; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy with flexible hours

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer for its Capital Markets division. You will design, build, and operate low-latency trading systems, owning key components from architecture to production.

The role collaborates with quants and traders to boost performance and reliability in a fast-paced, fully remote setting. Ideal candidates have production-grade Rust experience, strong AWS and Linux skills, and a track record in systematic trading environments.

Qualifications

• Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance, concurrent systems.
• Hands-on experience in systematic trading environments with risk awareness.
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise for latency-sensitive workloads.
• Proficiency in Python for strategy development and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise low-latency trading systems.
• Own trading stack components end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Collaborate with quants and traders to improve performance and resilience.
• Drive standards via leadership, code reviews and mentoring.
• Support agentic engineering, AI-assisted workflows and automation.

Skills

Rust

Trading systems

AWS

Python

FIX/WebSocket

Low latency

Linux

Agentic engineering

Tools

Tokio

Linux

Shell scripting

DPDK

AI tools

Job description

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer for its Capital Markets division. You will design, build, and operate low-latency trading systems, owning key components from architecture to production.

The role collaborates with quants and traders to boost performance and reliability in a fast-paced, fully remote setting. Ideal candidates have production-grade Rust experience, strong AWS and Linux skills, and a track record in systematic trading environments.