Senior Resident API Security Engineer

Zippy Talent; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 337,000 - 488,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a Senior Resident Engineer specializing in API Security. This role requires deep technical expertise and hands-on implementation skills to enhance clients' security postures. The selected candidate will work closely with clients, providing architectural guidance, leading the deployment of Wallarm, and ensuring optimal operational excellence. A minimum of 5 years in technical roles and strong experience with API and cloud security are required. This is a fully on-site position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with API security, application security, or cloud security.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, or microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and modern API frameworks.
• Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and HTTP/TLS.
• Ability to analyze logs, traffic, and security events.
• Prior experience in a customer-facing or embedded role is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary on-site Wallarm technical authority for the customer.
• Build trusted relationships with various technical teams.
• Provide architectural guidance for securing APIs and applications.
• Lead deployment and configuration of Wallarm in customer environments.
• Integrate Wallarm with CI/CD pipelines and various tools.
• Monitor and respond to API security events and anomalies.

Skills

API security

Application security

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Containers

Microservices architectures

Linux

Networking fundamentals

HTTP/TLS

Analysis of logs and traffic

Tools

NGINX

WAFs

API gateways

Ingress controllers

Job description

Job Title: Senior Resident Engineer – API Security (Wallarm)

Location: KSA (On-site at Customer Location) - Travel required

About Wallarm

Wallarm is a leading API Security platform protecting modern applications and APIs from abuse, vulnerabilities, and business logic attacks. We help security and engineering teams discover, protect, and monitor APIs across cloud-native, microservices, and hybrid environments.

Role Overview

As a Resident Engineer for Wallarm API Security, you will serve as the dedicated technical expert embedded with a strategic customer. You will act as the primary bridge between the customer’s engineering, security, and operations teams and Wallarm’s product, engineering, and support organizations.

Your mission is to ensure successful deployment, optimization, and ongoing operational excellence of the Wallarm platform, while helping the customer improve their overall API security posture.

This role combines deep technical expertise, hands‑on implementation, customer advocacy, and security consulting.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary on‑site Wallarm technical authority for the customer.
• Build trusted relationships with security, platform, SRE, DevOps, and application teams
• Provide architectural guidance for securing APIs, microservices, and web applications
• Lead deployment and configuration of Wallarm across customer environments (cloud, Kubernetes, on‑prem, hybrid)
• Integrate Wallarm with CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, ingress controllers, WAFs, SIEMs, and monitoring tools
• Tune policies, detection models, and enforcement modes to minimize false positives while maximizing protection
• Assist with onboarding new applications, APIs, and services into Wallarm
• Monitor, analyze, and respond to API security events, attacks, and anomalies
• Provide hands‑on training and knowledge transfer to customer teams
• Develop documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures tailored to the customer
• Serve as the escalation point between the customer and Wallarm Support and Engineering

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with API security, application security, or cloud security
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, containers, or microservices architectures
• Familiarity with REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and modern API frameworks
• Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and HTTP/TLS
• Knowledge of WAFs, API gateways, reverse proxies, or ingress controllers, NGINX is a plus
• Ability to analyze logs, traffic, and security events

Professional Experience

• 5+ years in a technical role such as Security Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Solutions Architect, or Support Engineer
• Prior experience in a customer‑facing or embedded (resident) role is strongly preferred
• Experience working with enterprise or highly regulated environments is a plus