Rust Engineer
Job 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