Job description
Description
Short facts about us:
- We are a global remote-first team of 100+ people on four 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 worldwide, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups, choose Wallarm to protect their APIs and web applications
- The company passed Y Combinator, the most prestigious incubator in Silicon Valley, from which Dropbox, Stripe, Docker, etc., emerged.
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:
- Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.
- 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.
- Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.
- Test. Automate security testing of your APIs and web assets. Prioritize remediation for every asset, in every environment.
Our technology stack:
- The system management interface is written in React and is a Single Page Application.
- We use Ruby and Golang for backend development.
- Some components and modules are written in Python (Data Science/ML).
- Cloud deployed with Kubernetes/Helm and Terraform
- Main frameworks used: Ruby On Rails (API only)/Sinatra; gin for Golang
- Main databases used: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Riak/S3, Tarantool, and Redis
About this opportunity:
We’re looking for a Python/Go Team Lead 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:
- Own the technical vision, ensure high-quality solutions and oversee the team’s successful delivery
- Drive key technical decisions, roadmap planning and tech debt management to align engineering efforts with business goals
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team of Backend, Frontend and QA engineers, fostering professional growth and collaboration
- Develop and enhance software using Python (70%) and Go (30%), designing scalable, high-performance solutions
- Contribute to open-source projects, such as GoTestWAF, fostering community engagement and collaboration
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration, gathering requirements, sharing knowledge and ensuring smooth project execution.
Requirements
Required qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering (Python and Go) and microservice architecture;
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams;
- Broad experience in API development;
- Understanding of parallel and concurrent programming principles;
- Hands-on experience with high-loaded systems;
- Good knowledge of modern software architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity and/or hands-on experience with ML;
- Proven technical background in the security domain;
- Hands-on experience with API protocols: REST, GRPC and GraphQL;
- Experience in designing and implementing anti-abuse solutions would be a huge plus.
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.
