Senior Rust Engineer - Low-Latency Trading Systems (Remote)

Keyrock; City Of London; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work opportunity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to lead design, development, and operation of high-performance trading systems within our Capital Markets division. You will own major components, collaborate with quants and traders, and drive improvements in latency, reliability, and observability while operating in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

The role requires deep Rust experience, proficiency with AWS and Linux, and a track record in systematic trading environments.

Qualifications

• Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance, concurrent systems.
• Hands-on experience in a systematic trading environment (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading).
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise, including cloud infra trade-offs for latency-sensitive workloads.
• Proficiency in Python or scripting languages for strategy development and tooling.
• Familiarity with trading system protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket).
• Knowledge of low-latency networking and kernel bypass techniques.

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 with quants, traders, and engineers to improve trading performance and resilience.
• Maintain trading infrastructure with focus on performance, stability, observability, and operability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and market data handling.
• Drive engineering standards through code reviews and mentoring.
• Embrace AI-assisted workflows and automation to evolve tooling.
• Contribute to functional, component, and production-readiness testing for critical trading components.

Skills

Production-grade Rust

Tokio

Trading systems / HFT

AWS

Linux

Python scripting

Low-latency networking

Agentic engineering concepts

Communication

Tools

AWS

FIX protocol

WebSocket

Linux

DPDK / kernel bypass

Job description

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to lead design, development, and operation of high-performance trading systems within our Capital Markets division. You will own major components, collaborate with quants and traders, and drive improvements in latency, reliability, and observability while operating in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

The role requires deep Rust experience, proficiency with AWS and Linux, and a track record in systematic trading environments.