Systems Engineer

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 - Acting as the team’s systems expert, and teaching other engineers specialist skills like systems debugging - Automating our own work, because it makes us faster and more reliable (and we think it's fun) - Diagnosing and resolving production issues in real time, often under time pressure - Carrying out scheduled changes to the platform, like upgrades, migrations, capacity changes, and rollouts, planned meticulously and executed carefully - Care deeply about correctness and efficiency, and want to take ownership of infrastructure Minimum Qualifications - Very strong programming ability, especially in low-level languages like Rust, C and C++ - Some experience with SQL databases Preferred Qualifications - Strong experience in Rust, including reasoning through complex multithreaded and concurrent code - Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including: - Strong understanding of network protocols and the ability to reason across the full networking stack, including how each layer contributes to connections such as WebSockets - Strong systems-design judgment and the ability to weigh tradeoffs, including knowing when simplicity and lower maintenance burden are more valuable than following conventional best practices - Comfortable forming strong opinions on both high- and low-level technical decisions, while being willing to debate and reconsider them - Comfortable working from the Linux command line, including troubleshooting system health, processes, logs, and other runtime issues - A practical problem solver who uses code to solve problems and cares deeply about robust, maintainable software engineering We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Compensation Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD