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.