Senior Go/Python Developer

Job description

Description

Short facts about us:

• We are a global remote-first team of 150+ people on 4 continents and in 10+ countries

• We have been protecting our clients since 2016

• The company has raised over $10M in investments.

• More than 200 customers around the world, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups choose Wallarm to protect their API and web applications

• The company passed Y Combinator, the most prestigious incubator in Silicon Valley, from which Dropbox, Stripe, Docker, etc. came out.

Our product:

Wallarm API security solutions provide proven performance to support innovative companies serving millions of users and billions of API requests per month. Hundreds of Security and DevOps teams globally use Wallarm daily to:

1. Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.

2. Protect. A single suite that goes beyond OWASP Top 10 for full coverage for API specific threats, account takeover, malicious bots, L7 DDoS, and more.

3. Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.

4. Test. Automate security testing of your APIs and web assets. Prioritize remediation for every asset, in every environment.

About this opportunity:

We’re looking for a software engineer with Python/Go expertise to improve our API Abuse prevention. This product provides comprehensive real-time protection against detrimental automated behaviors, including malicious bots, account takeover (ATO), credential stuffing, application layer (L7) DDoS attacks, and more.

Tech stack for this position: Python, Go, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker.

Responsibilities:

• Software Development: Utilize your Python (70%) and Go expertise to design, implement, and maintain new features and enhancements within our software applications.

• Team Collaboration: Work closely with fellow team members and cross-functional teams (e.g., product, design, QA) to gather requirements, share knowledge, provide high-quality code reviews and ensure project success.

• Ownership & Quality: Take full ownership of the product components and its codebase—from development to production. You should be comfortable being the technical authority for your components and ready to support them in production, including participating in on-call rotations. This role requires a strong sense of responsibility, proactive thinking, and a commitment to reliability and long-term quality.

Requirements

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering (Python and/or Go) and microservice architecture;

• Broad experience in API development;

• Understanding of parallel and concurrent programming principles;

• Good command of SQL and practical experience working directly with relational and analytical databases;

• Hands-on experience with high-loaded systems;

• Good knowledge of modern software architecture;

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

It will be considered a bonus if you:

• Are familiar and/or have hands-on experience with ML;

• Have proven technical background in the security domain;

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform);

• Have expertise in designing and implementing anti-abuse solutions.

What we offer:

• Ability to work on a product that makes the Internet safer;

• Completely remote work and flexible working hours;

• Competitive salary and bonuses;

• Paid days off;

• Medical insurance;

• Working equipment;

• Professional development and career growth.