Job Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date Posted: 12 October 2026
Job Reference/: 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
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