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Rust Infrastructure Engineer
DEX Startup $150 000 - $225 000
Remote - Europe 🇪🇺
DEX Startup This role is with a DEX startup founded by a team with backgrounds in high-frequency trading, top-tier tech companies, and major crypto exchanges.
Backed by leading investors in the digital asset space, the team previously built one of the fastest-growing decentralized exchanges, facilitating billions in annual trading volume.
They’re now redefining the trading experience on Solana, building a next-generation platform that achieves millisecond-level execution latency, thousands of transactions per second, and a full-featured perps and spot DEX.
Role Overview
We’re looking for an exceptional Infrastructure Engineer with strong Rust expertise to build and maintain the high-performance systems powering the exchange.
You’ll develop critical Rust microservices and APIs, design scalable infrastructure, and ensure reliability and observability across all systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Rust-based components such as indexers, oracles, funding rate and liquidation bots.
- Build REST and WebSocket APIs using Axum or Tungstenite, and contribute to Rust SDK development.
- Design and manage scalable infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu across cloud and on-premise environments.
- Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with GitOps workflows (FluxCD).
- Build infrastructure automation and tooling in Rust.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput network architectures.
- Enhance observability with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, metrics, tracing, and logging.
- Manage data infrastructure, including Kafka pipelines and ClickHouse databases.
- Maintain near-24/7 uptime and reliability for mission-critical systems.
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of professional Rust development experience.
- 4+ years in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform roles.
- Strong experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Hands-on Kubernetes administration at scale.
- Solid understanding of GitOps principles.
- Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, load balancing, DNS, network security).
- AWS experience; multi-cloud or hybrid cloud familiarity a plus.
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and observability tools.
- Good grasp of cloud security best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kafka and ClickHouse.
- API development using Axum or similar frameworks.
- Familiarity with exchange infrastructure (margin, liquidation, risk systems, oracle feeds).
- Understanding of Solana and on-chain keepers/cranks.
- Proficiency with performance profiling tools (pprof, pyroscope, flamegraphs).
- Background building SDKs or client libraries.
What We’re Looking For
- High ownership and autonomy.
- Strong problem-solving ability across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.
- Proven track record maintaining uptime for mission-critical systems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Why Join
- Shape the infrastructure foundation of decentralized finance on Solana.
- High-autonomy role with immediate, visible impact.
- Build systems that power billions in trading volume.
- Collaborate with a world-class engineering team.
- Competitive compensation package.
💡 If you’re ready to build world-class Rust infrastructure powering the next generation of DeFi, we’d love to hear from you.
Send your resume to dex.infra@rustjobs.dev
Application process
- Your application goes directly to the Rust Jobs team. We manage hiring for this role on behalf of the company.
- Every CV is read by a human, not a filter. We assess it against the requirements before anything else happens.
- If your application is a strong fit, we'll reach out by email to introduce ourselves and walk you through the next steps with the company.
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