Rust Engineer

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

Job summary

Axiom Trade in Austin is seeking a Rust Engineer to build high-throughput backend services, index blockchain data in real time, and design memory-efficient caching to sustain sub-10ms latency.

You will work on production Rust with Tokio, integrate Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse, and coordinate with a TypeScript fleet to maintain wire-level protocol consistency.

Qualifications

• Production Rust with asynchronous Rust and tokio runtime.
• Fluency in Rust ownership, lifetimes, and multi-threaded concurrency in production codebases.
• Experience deploying and maintaining services under sustained high concurrency and load.
• Strong debugging, urgency, and end-to-end ownership in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and scale production Rust services under heavy load.
• Develop low-latency real-time indexing for Solana and EVM chains.
• Write async Rust using Tokio and optimize in-memory state models.
• Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse to performance limits.
• Maintain wire-level protocol and schema consistency between Rust and TypeScript fleets.
• Profile production code and uphold engineering standards.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous Rust

Concurrency

Ownership & borrow

Tools

sqlx

tokio-tungstenite

rdkafka

Redis crates

Job description

Axiom Trade is building the future of retail trading. As opportunities migrate on-chain, Axiom's mission is to make discovering and trading digital assets fast, powerful, and intuitive. Serving millions of active users and facilitating more than $100M in daily trading volume, Axiom is operated by a high-ownership, fast-moving engineering team based in Austin.

Role Summary

Rust powers Axiom’s critical path across low-latency services, real-time data streaming, and trade execution. As a Rust Engineer, you will build and operate high-throughput backend services across 300k+ lines of code, index Solana and EVM chains in real time where sub-10ms latency makes a product difference, and design concurrent in-memory caching systems that shield underlying databases.

Key Responsibilities

• Critical-Path Infrastructure: Build, operate, and scale production Rust services running continuously under heavy retail and market load.

• Real-Time Chain Indexing: Develop ultra-low-latency real-time indexing engines for Solana and EVM chains.

• Concurrency & Memory Management: Write async Rust using Tokio, optimizing concurrent in-memory state models to serve reads with minimal database overhead.

• Data Layer Optimization: Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse to their performance limits and select optimal data backends for varying workloads.

• Cross-Language Consistency: Maintain wire‑level protocol and schema agreement between the Rust and TypeScript fleet services.

• Profiling & Performance Defense: Profile production code (flamegraphs, allocation pressure, tail latency) and uphold rigorous engineering standards.

Requirements & Qualifications

Must-Haves

• Production Rust: Deep production experience with asynchronous Rust and the tokio runtime ecosystem.

• Systems Foundations: Complete fluency with Rust ownership, lifetimes, borrow checker mechanics, and multi‑threaded concurrency in production codebases.

• Load Reliability: Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining services that operate continuously under sustained high concurrency and load.

• Execution & Ownership: Strong debugging fundamentals, high urgency, and comfort taking end‑to‑end ownership in a fast‑paced environment.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Latency & Performance: Experience with low‑level latency profiling, flamegraphs, memory allocation tuning, and optimizing p99 tail latency.

• Ecosystem Crates: Production background with sqlx, tokio‑tungstenite, rdkafka, or Redis crates.

• In-Memory Concurrency: Hands‑on experience with dashmap, arc‑swap, or custom lock‑free data structures.

• Streaming Ingestion: Experience with gRPC, Solana Geyser plugins, Redpanda/Kafka, or large‑scale WebSocket fan‑out architectures.

• Blockchain Internals: In‑depth understanding of Solana or EVM execution environments, node RPCs, and on‑chain mechanics.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual Base Salary: $320,000 – $465,000 USD

• Bonus: Performance‑based bonus structure