Rust Engineer/EST
Northern, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Listed on 2026-09-20
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Software Engineer, Unix/Linux
We're partnered with a financial technology company that specializes in delivering high-performance market data solutions to institutional clients across the trading and financial services space. Their platform processes massive volumes of real-time options and equities data and is trusted by firms that rely on speed, reliability, and accuracy.
This team is focused on solving hard engineering problems y're looking for someone who enjoys digging into performance bottlenecks, optimizing systems, and building infrastructure that handles huge amounts of real-time data with minimal latency. If you're the type of engineer who gets excited about concurrency, memory management, network I/O, and squeezing every ounce of performance out of a system, this is the kind of role where you'll thrive.
WhatYou'll Be Doing
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Rust
- Develop systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and distributing massive volumes of real-time market data
- Optimize performance across memory allocation, concurrency, threading, and network I/O
- Build and enhance distributed systems focused on reliability, scalability, and speed
- Work closely with a small team of engineers on architecture and technical design decisions
- Profile, benchmark, and tune systems to improve throughput and reduce latency
- Contribute to the evolution of core infrastructure supporting mission-critical data platforms
- Strong professional experience with Rust in production environments
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Deep understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming
- Strong systems programming background with experience optimizing performance-critical applications
- Experience working with Linux-based systems
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP and socket programming
- Ability to analyze and improve system performance through profiling and benchmarking
- Rust
- Linux
- Distributed Systems
- TCP/IP Networking
- Concurrency & Multithreading
- Real-Time Data Processing
- Performance Optimization
- Market Data Infrastructure
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus potential
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Flexible PTO
- Fully remote work environment
- Opportunity to work on highly technical, performance-critical systems
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