Staff Engineer (Rust)

Douro Labs is the company behind Pyth Pro, a real-time market data infrastructure distributing institutional-grade price feeds from primary sources to exchanges, market makers, and trading firms. Pyth Pro supports major cryptocurrency exchanges and prediction markets with a growing base of institutional users. The Staff Engineer Market Data role involves building systems that ingest, process, store, and serve high-volume real-time market data with high performance and reliability under strict accuracy guarantees. Location: Europe Remote Language: English (Fluent) Team Structure: Distributed across US, South America, Europe, and Asia, with a strong concentration in Europe. Seniority: Senior level, able to work independently from day one. Growth Path: Individual contributor role with potential to lead a small team (3-4 people) as the organization grows. Responsibilities: — Build and maintain core market data infrastructure in Rust — Address practical problems specific to real-time market data such as cross-exchange pricing differences, data quality, and latency — Incorporate real market data or trading systems knowledge into engineering decisions — Communicate clearly with the team as it grows — Take on leadership of a small team over time Desired Skills and Experience: — Senior or staff-level engineering experience with strong, hands-on Rust — Experience with real-time streaming systems — Experience with high-scale data storage and processing in a market data context — Real market data or trading systems experience, ideally from a market data provider, trading firm, or bank — Background in traditional finance preferred over web3 or crypto-native companies — Comfort using AI tools like Claude balanced with independent problem-solving ability — Strong communication skills for future management responsibilities Nice to Have: — Direct experience with pricing methodology, index construction, or reference data architecture — Some experience mentoring or informally leading engineers