
Senior Rust Engineer
Durlston Partners·Senior·Remote · Europe·$250k–$250k USD
Posted Aug 22, 2026
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.

