Principal Rust Engineer

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a Principal Rust Engineer in Abu Dhabi to lead architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, high-performance Rust platforms. This hands-on leadership role involves defining engineering standards, mentoring teams, and driving Rust adoption across large distributed systems.

You will architect production Rust services, guide multiple teams, review code, and improve performance, reliability, and security while collaborating with Product, Security, SRE, and Delivery

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years building production systems in Rust.
• Experience as Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer.
• Track record delivering business-critical services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop production-grade Rust services and libraries.
• Lead technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, standards, and best practices.
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall Rust capability across the organization.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Asynchronous programming

Cloud-native platforms

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Job Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Date Posted: 12 October 2026

Job Reference/ID: 242301

Job Description / Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Rust Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, and high-performance software platforms.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will define engineering standards, architect mission-critical systems, mentor engineers, and drive Rust adoption across large-scale distributed platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop production-grade Rust services and libraries
• Lead technical decisions across multiple engineering teams
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, standards, and best practices
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and security
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall Rust capability across the organization
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions

Experience Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years building production systems in Rust
• Proven experience as a Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer
• Track record of delivering business-critical services at scale

Skills Required:

• Expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and systems programming
• Deep understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, networking, and performance optimization
• Strong experience with software architecture, CI/CD, observability, security, and cloud-native platforms

Employment / Job Type: Full Time

Nationality: Any Nationality

About the Company:

Technology recruitment and managed services company operating across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, with a strong Dubai and Abu Dhabi presence. Halian supplies permanent hires, contractors, and full managed teams to banking, government, telecommunications, energy, and healthcare clients across software engineering, cloud, cyber security, data, and enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle.

Company Industry: IT Jobs

Department / Functional Area: Engineering

Closing Date: Not mentioned