Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About Durlston Partners
A leading trading technology firm in New York is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to design and build the next generation of low-latency systems powering high-performance crypto and electronic trading. While crypto experience is not a hard requirement, this role is particularly well-suited to engineers who have built exchange-grade infrastructure, matching engines, market data pipelines, or high-throughput order routing systems in top crypto or traditional trading environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Core backend services in Rust for low-latency (& ULL) trading and market data.
• High-performance components such as order routing, risk checks, pub-sub systems, and real-time data distribution.
• System-level performance tuning: CPU profiling, memory optimisation, network-level debugging.
• Scalable, fault-tolerant services used by internal trading teams and external partners.
• Close collaboration with quant, infra, and platform teams on latency–critical paths.

Requirements:

• Senior-level Rust experience with production systems at scale.
• Background in crypto exchanges, DEXs, market makers, or high-frequency electronic trading.
• Experience with matching engines, market data handlers, low-latency networking (TCP/UDP), kernel-level tuning, lock-free data structures, or similar.
• Deep knowledge of concurrency, distributed systems, and systems programming.
• Strong performance-oriented mindset with a track record of optimising microseconds.

Why This Role Appeals to Crypto Low-Latency Engineers

• Work on problems directly comparable to building an exchange.
• High-ownership engineering: greenfield design, major architectural decisions, deep systems challenges.
• Team of ex-HFT, CEX/DEX, and quant trading engineers.
• Competitively compensated, NYC-based, high-impact role.