Rust Engineer

Axiom Trade; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 320,000 - 465,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom is building the future of retail trading from Austin. We seek a Rust engineer to build and operate the core Rust services behind our on-chain trading product, including real-time indexers, search engines, and streaming pipelines that span 100k+ lines of code.

You will push data through Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse, optimize latency, and collaborate across Rust and TypeScript components while mentoring teammates as the team grows. Competitive compensation in USD.

Qualifications

• Production experience with async Rust and tokio.
• Fluency with ownership, lifetimes, and concurrency in real codebases.
• Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals.
• Experience with services that run continuously under load.
• Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the many Rust services behind the product, across 100k+ lines and growing
• Index Solana and EVM chains in real time, where ten milliseconds is a product difference
• Write async Rust with tokio, and the concurrent in-memory state that keeps reads off the database
• Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse hard, and recognize when each is the wrong tool
• Keep the Rust and TypeScript halves of the fleet in exact agreement on the wire
• Profile what you ship and defend the numbers
• Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship

Skills

Rust programming

Concurrency & synchronization

Debugging fundamentals

High-load systems

Ownership and lifetimes

Async programming

Tools

Tokio

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka/Redpanda

ClickHouse

gRPC

Geyser

TypeScript

Job description

About Axiom

Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.

Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.

About the Role

Rust runs Axiom's critical path: real-time chain indexers, per-chain search engines, the image and metadata pipeline, and the sockets that push it all to users.

• Build and operate the many Rust services behind the product, across 100k+ lines and growing

• Index Solana and EVM chains in real time, where ten milliseconds is a product difference

• Write async Rust with tokio, and the concurrent in-memory state that keeps reads off the database

• Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse hard, and recognize when each is the wrong tool

• Keep the Rust and TypeScript halves of the fleet in exact agreement on the wire

• Profile what you ship and defend the numbers

• Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship

Minimum Qualifications

• Production experience with async Rust and tokio

• Fluency with ownership, lifetimes, and concurrency in real codebases

• Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals

• Experience with services that run continuously under load

• Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Latency work: profiling, flamegraphs, allocation pressure, tail latency

• Concurrent in-memory state — dashmap, arc-swap, or lock-free structures

• Search and ranking systems

• Experience doing high-throughput streaming ingest from gRPC, Geyser, Kafka/Redpanda

• Experience developing systems with high throughput, bursty egress; especially for Websocket fanout to many clients

• Solana or EVM internals, whether indexing or on-chain

• Comfortable in TypeScript as well - much of the fleet is both

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD