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Senior Rust Engineer

Solana | DeFi Infrastructure

mid to senior Up to 160k + bonus Remote within 4 hours of CET Engineering Rust Solana Defi

Our client is building core trading and intelligence infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem. Their platform processes high-volume on-chain data in real time, powering analytics, smart-money tracking, and fraud detection used by sophisticated DeFi and trading teams.

This is a small, senior team working on genuinely hard problems in blockchain data and performance engineering.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to design and build high-performance systems that process millions of Solana transactions in real time.

This is not a maintenance role. You will own critical infrastructure, make architectural decisions, and ship production code that directly impacts users.

Startup environment. High ownership. Fast iteration.

What You’ll Work On

  • High-throughput Solana transaction indexing

  • Real-time analytics pipelines and streaming systems

  • Continuous aggregations and on-chain intelligence

  • Smart-money detection and wallet tracking

  • Fraud detection engines

  • Enterprise-grade API infrastructure

Core Requirements (Non-Negotiable)

  • 4+ years of production experience with Rust

  • Deep, hands-on knowledge of Solana

    • Transactions, programs, RPC, Geyser

  • Strong expertise in concurrency and parallelism

    • Tokio, Rayon, async patterns, lock-free structures

  • Experience designing and operating microservices

  • Solid experience with PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and ClickHouse

  • Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ or similar)

  • Comfortable with gRPC and WebSockets

Nice to Have

  • EVM / Ethereum experience

  • Familiarity with Carbon or other Solana decoders

  • Kubernetes experience

  • Background in trading systems or financial data

  • Experience building real-time streaming pipelines

What’s on Offer

  • Up to $100k base, paid in USDT

  • Fully remote

  • Timezone: within ±4 hours of CET

  • Direct ownership over critical systems

  • Small team, no bureaucracy

  • Close collaboration with product and leadership

How to Apply


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