Rust Engineer - Platform Trading

Rust Engineer - Platform Trading – Keyrock

Keyrock is a leading digital‑asset firm founded in 2017 with 200+ team members across global hubs. We operate on 80+ exchanges and pioneer high‑frequency, options, and DeFi trading, and we are the first to adopt Rust for our algorithmic trading platforms.

As a Platform Backend Engineer (Rust) you will design, build, and maintain the backoffice and trading data platform systems that enable our core trading operations. You will own complex infrastructure, collaborate cross‑functionally, and apply a product‑centric mindset to solve high‑impact technical challenges.

• Design, build, and maintain high‑performance backend services and APIs using Rust, ensuring low latency and high availability for critical trading data platforms.
• Apply strong systems engineering fundamentals: concurrency, memory management, networking, serialization, and observability.
• Create seamless integrations between live trading operations (exchanges/DeFi) and backoffice systems, automating workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Deploy and manage services in a cloud‑native environment, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform to scale infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Maintain Git Ops‑driven workflows, ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines and implementing deep system observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for rapid incident response.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies (SQL/No
  
  SQL), balancing query performance, cost efficiency, and data integrity in a high‑volume financial environment.
• Engineer solutions with a "Security‑First" mindset, ensuring strict adherence to compliance standards and secure handling of sensitive financial data.
• Partner with Product Managers, Risk teams, and other engineers to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical specifications and features.
• Actively participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor fellow engineers to foster a culture of high code quality and innovation.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in the Rust ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain technologies to continuously refine the platform’s capabilities.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data‑intensive, large‑scale, high‑performance trading data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Rust (or C++), Python, and Type Script for system development and automation in the financial services industry.
• Good understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and stream processing.
• Experience with financial services data workflows: trading, middle office, and back office operations.
• Extensive experience in cloud‑native architectures, with proficiency in AWS.
• Proficient in Git Ops tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.
• Strong background in Dev Sec Fin Ops , ensuring compliance, security, and cost efficiency across the development lifecycle.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC), and monitoring tools.

• A competitive salary package.
• Autonomy in time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team that searches for excellence.

Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior.

Employment type:

Full‑time. Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology.

We welcome employees of all backgrounds and hire, reward, and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, which is a prerequisite to join Keyrock.