Head of Node

Short facts about us:

• We are a global remote-first team of 100+ people on 4 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 around the world, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups choose Wallarm to protect their API and web applications.

• The company passed Y Combinator, the most prestigious incubator in Silicon Valley, from which Dropbox, Stripe, Docker, etc. came out.

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:

1. Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.

2. 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.

3. Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.

4. Test. Automate security testing of your APIs and web assets. Prioritize remediation for every asset, in every environment.

Our technology stack:

• Core: C (high-performance, low-latency), Golang for Native Node and Post analytic, Nginx modules, Linux, Bash

• Observability & tooling: gdb, Valgrind, sanitizers, heaptrack, perf

• Cloud & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GCP & AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK

• Ecosystem: React SPA frontend · Ruby (RoR/Sinatra) & Go (Gin) backends · Python (FastAPI, aiohttp) integration tests

• Data stores: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, Clickhouse,

In this role you will:

• Set the annual roadmap for Node features, performance and architecture

• Lead 3 cross-functional squads (Dev, QA, DevOps) – 15 engineers total

• Own release cadence, CI/CD and on-prem delivery pipelines

• Mentor tech leads, hire new talent and drive OKRs

• Collaborate with Product & Security Research to match the roadmap to threats

Requirements

In this role you’ll need:

• 7 + years total software-engineering experience, 3 + years leading a cross-functional org of ~10-25 engineers (Developers, QA, DevOps)

• Demonstrated ability to craft and execute annual engineering plans + org design changes - from OKRs through hiring and mentoring

• Proven ownership of customer-deployed, high-performance proxy/gateway software (Nginx modules, Envoy, HAProxy, or similar)

• Track record of driving release cadence, quality processes and architecture decisions for a single core product

• Familiarity with CI/CD for on-prem-deployable components and observability stacks

• Excellent written and verbal communication in a fully remote, globally distributed setting

• Hands-on knowledge of C/C++ on Linux, performance profiling and secure coding practices.

Nice to have:

• Experience shipping software that runs in customers’ own cloud or data-center environments (air-gapped, regulated, multi-OS)

• Previous leadership of QA automation teams using Python-based integration and performance tests

• Familiarity with Kubernetes internals

• Built developer-first / API-first products or security tooling.

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