Senior Rust Developer
Job Description
Since 2016, Wallarm has been on a mission to secure the internet's critical infrastructure: APIs. Today, we are the trusted choice for over 200 of the world's most innovative companies, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 and Nasdaq leaders. Our unified platform provides full-lifecycle API security — helping teams discover their attack surface, protect against modern threats, and respond to incidents in real-time. As a graduate of Y Combinator and fueled by a recent $55M Series C, we are scaling our global, remote-first team of 180+ innovators to solve the next generation of security challenges.
About this opportunity:
We’re launching an internal startup: a high-performing AI/API Management Platform on Rust. We’re looking for a founding engineer who will work directly with the founder and product owner to build the first production-ready version of the product.
The key point: we already have our first customer. The near-term goal is to deliver the first production-ready version and successfully roll it out to the client. After that, we’ll spin this into a standalone product with a dedicated team — and you’d have a real path to leading that team.
In 2026 we want to build the best AI/API gateway for the enterprise segment while entering the mid-market and appear in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management as a Visionary.
What You'll Do:
Own End-to-End Application Development: Take full, end-to-end responsibility for designing, developing, and deploying the new high-performing API Management Platform in Rust, ensuring it is robust and scalable from its first line of code to production.
Establish Production Readiness: Implement and manage the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure required to move the application to a production-ready state, utilizing our cloud-native environment (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform).
Ensure Operational Excellence: Develop deep observability and monitoring, and take primary ownership of troubleshooting and resolving production issues to maintain peak performance and reliability for our initial customer and beyond.
Drive Team Growth and Culture: Serve as a founding engineer, contributing to architectural decisions, conducting thoughtful code reviews, and laying the groundwork to eventually lead the dedicated product team.