Senior Rust Architect & Platform Lead

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

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