Principal Rust Engineer: Lead Secure, Scalable Systems

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a highly experienced Principal Rust Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, high-performance software platforms in Abu Dhabi.

This hands-on technical leadership role defines engineering standards, mentors engineers, drives Rust adoption across large-scale distributed systems, and collaborates with Product, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years building production systems in Rust
• Proven experience as a Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer
• 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
• Track record of 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

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Software architecture

Tools

Rust

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Cloud-native platforms

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Networking

Job description

Halian is seeking a highly experienced Principal Rust Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, high-performance software platforms in Abu Dhabi.

This hands-on technical leadership role defines engineering standards, mentors engineers, drives Rust adoption across large-scale distributed systems, and collaborates with Product, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions.