Role description
AxiomAbout 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