Rust Systems Engineer

Company: Rust Stack
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Location: London
Job Description:

Rust Systems Engineer

Location: London, UK (On-site)Visa sponsorship available

A profitable, venture-backed crypto infrastructure company is hiring a Rust Systems Engineer to build ultra low latency, high throughput blockchain infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

  • Optimise systems processing tens of thousands of transactions per block
  • Work on microsecond-level latency components
  • Improve sorting and simulation pipelines
  • Profile, optimise, deploy and iterate
  • Ship code that directly impacts production performance and P&L

Requirements

  • Strong systems programming in Rust or C/C++ with willingness to switch
  • Deep understanding of concurrency and lock-free structures
  • Strong knowledge of CPU cache, memory layout and branch prediction
  • Experience profiling and optimising performance critical systems
  • Comfortable owning systems end-to-end

Nice to Have

  • EVM or blockchain knowledge
  • Networking optimisation such as kernel stack or XDP
  • Auction systems or game theory experience

Compensation

  • Competitive base salary
  • Early stage equity
  • Uncapped performance bonus
  • Private healthcare

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Posted: October 11th, 2026