Senior Resident API Security Engineer

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

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

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.

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.

• Act as the primary on‑site Wallarm technical authority for the customer.
• Build trusted relationships with security, platform, SRE, Dev Ops, 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

• Strong experience with API security, application security, or cloud security
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, containers, or microservices architectures
• Familiarity with REST, Graph
  
  QL, 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

• 5+ years in a technical role such as Security Engineer, Dev Ops 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