Rust Engineer

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

Job summary

Axiom Trade in Austin, Texas, is building low-latency backend systems for on-chain retail trading. As a Rust Engineer, you will develop and operate high-throughput services powering real-time data and order execution, with sub-10ms latency targets across Solana and EVM ecosystems.

You will work on async Rust, Tokio, and cross-language interfaces with TypeScript, while profiling and optimizing memory, throughput, and tail latency in production.

Qualifications

• Production Rust in async contexts.
• Deep Rust ownership, lifetimes and concurrency.
• Experience with handling high concurrency services.
• Strong debugging and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and scale Rust services under heavy retail and market load.
• Develop ultra-low-latency real-time indexing engines for Solana and EVM chains.
• Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse to performance limits and optimize data backends.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous Rust

Tokio

Ownership & Concurrency

Performance

High-load systems

Tools

sqlx

tokio-tungstenite

rdkafka

Redis

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