Senior Rust Engineer - Low-Latency HFT (Remote)

Keyrock; Milano; Remote; EUR 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Flexible working hours

Fully remote work

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience to join our Capital Markets division. You will own low-latency trading infrastructure, drive technical direction, and collaborate with a global, fully remote team across multiple time zones.

The role emphasizes Rust expertise, AWS, and an ability to deliver mission-critical systems. The position offers autonomy, strong growth opportunities, and a pathway to influence across end-to-end trading components in a

Qualifications

• Production-grade Rust experience building high-performance, concurrent systems.
• Experience in systematic trading environments (HFT, Market Making, Quantitative Trading).
• Strong AWS and Linux expertise, with latency-aware cloud design.
• Proficiency in Python or scripting for automation and tooling.
• Deep familiarity with trading system protocols (FIX, REST, WebSocket).
• Solid grasp of low-latency networking (TCP/UDP, DPDK).
• Knowledge of agentic engineering tools and AI-enabled workflows.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions and guide complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, 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 and resilience.
• Maintain trading infrastructure focusing on performance, stability, observability, and operability.
• Troubleshoot production issues across exchange connectivity, execution, and data handling.
• Drive engineering standards via leadership, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Embrace agentic engineering: AI-assisted workflows and automation.
• Contribute to functional and production-readiness testing for trading components.

Skills

Rust programming

Tokio

HFT experience

AWS

Linux

Python scripting

FIX/REST/WebSocket

Low-latency networking

Agentic engineering

Job description

Keyrock is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer with deep trading systems experience to join our Capital Markets division. You will own low-latency trading infrastructure, drive technical direction, and collaborate with a global, fully remote team across multiple time zones.

The role emphasizes Rust expertise, AWS, and an ability to deliver mission-critical systems. The position offers autonomy, strong growth opportunities, and a pathway to influence across end-to-end trading components in a