Trading Systems Engineer (Rust) - Drift Labs｜Meet.jobs

About the jobAbout Drift Labs

Drift is a leading derivatives exchange on Solana. Our mission is to bring state-of-the-art trader-centric experience from centralised exchanges on-chain. We're a team of experienced traders and builders from DeFi and traditional finance working together to make this a reality.

Within five months of launching, we have:

 

Hit $10B in cumulative volume traded;

Achieved over $50M in trader open interest with $13M in collateral vault balance;

Launched 21 trading markets.

 

The Opportunity

Drift is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer to report to our CTO, Head of Research, and Quant engineering team, to lead the development of core trading infrastructure, design and implement quantitative trading strategies, as well as monitor systems and ensure their performance. You’ll have an opportunity to work across our entire Solana stack on cutting-edge technology that revolutionises the way we trade digital assets.

Drift Labs pays a competitive salary with upside potential.

Key Responsibilities

 

Design, develop, and maintain core trading infrastructure

Develop monitoring solutions to ensure system performance in production

Profile and improve critical code paths to ensure high performance

Assist in implementing and integrating quantitative trading strategies

Participate in code reviews to maintain a high degree of code quality

 

Requirements

 

Low level understanding of HTTP, HTTP/2 and websocket protocols

Proven experience working with a low level language (i.e. C/C++/Rust)

Experience or willingness to working in Rust

Experience working with an asynchronous and/or multithreaded system

Sufficient knowledge of maths to implement mathematical concepts in code

 

Nice to haves

 

Experience in algorithmic trading

Working knowledge of common DeFi patterns

Experience working with blockchains at the protocol level

 

Perks:

 

Remote first - work from anywhere, but a home base in Australia or the North America is preferable

International team meets

Stipend for technology costs

 

Drift is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. All aspects of employment are based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To apply, go to https://link.drift.trade/apply