Rust Engineer
Axiom Trade Austin, Texas, United States · $320K–$465K/yr
Blockchain Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
You will build and operate critical Rust services for real-time chain indexing and search engines. You will also ensure high-performance data pipelines and maintain synchronization between Rust and TypeScript components.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have production experience with async Rust and tokio, along with strong fundamentals in concurrency and system debugging. Experience with high-throughput services and familiarity with blockchain internals like Solana or EVM is highly preferred.
Benefits
Full description
About Axiom
Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.
Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.
About the Role
Rust runs Axiom's critical path: real-time chain indexers, per-chain search engines, the image and metadata pipeline, and the sockets that push it all to users.
- Build and operate the many Rust services behind the product, across 100k+ lines and growing
- Index Solana and EVM chains in real time, where ten milliseconds is a product difference
- Write async Rust with tokio, and the concurrent in-memory state that keeps reads off the database
- Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse hard, and recognize when each is the wrong tool
- Keep the Rust and TypeScript halves of the fleet in exact agreement on the wire
- Profile what you ship and defend the numbers
- Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship
Minimum Qualifications
- Production experience with async Rust and tokio
- Fluency with ownership, lifetimes, and concurrency in real codebases
- Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
- Experience with services that run continuously under load
- Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Latency work: profiling, flamegraphs, allocation pressure, tail latency
- Concurrent in-memory state — dashmap, arc-swap, or lock-free structures
- Search and ranking systems
- Experience doing high-throughput streaming ingest from gRPC, Geyser, Kafka/Redpanda
- Experience developing systems with high throughput, bursty egress; especially for Websocket fanout to many clients
- Solana or EVM internals, whether indexing or on-chain
- Comfortable in TypeScript as well - much of the fleet is both
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.
Compensation
Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD
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