Senior Rust Engineer for Low-Latency Trading (Remote)

Keyrock; Roma; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Merit-based compensation

Job summary

Keyrock, a leading digital asset market maker, is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to own critical trading infrastructure in a fully remote, European-time-zone setup. You will design, build, and operate low-latency systems with AWS and Linux expertise, collaborating with quants, traders and engineers.

Ideal candidates have production Rust experience, familiarity with FIX/WebSocket, and a strong drive for reliability, performance and automated workflows in a fast-paced capital markets environment.

Qualifications

• Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance, concurrent systems.
• Hands-on trading systems experience (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading).
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise for latency-sensitive workloads.
• Proficiency in Python or scripting for automation and tooling.
• Familiarity with trading protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket).

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise low-latency, mission-critical trading systems.
• Own key trading stack components end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to improve performance.
• Maintain trading infra with focus on observability and reliability.
• Drive standards through leadership and code reviews.
• Pursue agentic engineering: AI-assisted workflows and automation.
• Contribute to testing and production-readiness of components.

Skills

Rust

Low-latency systems

AWS

Linux

Python scripting

Trading protocols (FIX/REST/WebSocket)

Networking latency analysis

Agentic engineering concepts

Architectural decision making

Technical leadership

Tools

Tokio

Job description

Keyrock, a leading digital asset market maker, is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to own critical trading infrastructure in a fully remote, European-time-zone setup. You will design, build, and operate low-latency systems with AWS and Linux expertise, collaborating with quants, traders and engineers.

Ideal candidates have production Rust experience, familiarity with FIX/WebSocket, and a strong drive for reliability, performance and automated workflows in a fast-paced capital markets environment.