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Systems Engineer

Axiom· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$320k - $465kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Systems-focused engineering role at Axiom, responsible for owning and improving infrastructure, debugging, automation, and production reliability in a fast-growing trading platform.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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

Qualifications

  • Very strong programming ability, especially in low-level languages like Rust, C and C++
  • Some experience with SQL databases
  • Strong experience in Rust, including reasoning through complex multithreaded and concurrent code
  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL
  • Strong understanding of network protocols and cross-layer networking (WebSockets)
  • Strong systems-design judgment and ability to weigh tradeoffs
  • 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

Skills

Required:RustC/C++SQL
Nice to have:PostgreSQL
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Axiom

Trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield.

Axiom is the trading platform for decentralized finance and currently offers memecoins, perpetuals, and yield. Since launch we've hit 10M MRR and 5M monthly net profit.

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