Rust Engineer / EST

Summary

The employer is a financial technology company delivering high-performance market data solutions to institutional clients in the trading and financial services sectors. The Rust Engineer will design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend services and distributed systems for processing real-time market data, while contributing to architecture and core infrastructure decisions.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

Benefits

• 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