Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Since 2016 Wallarm has been on a mission to secure the internets critical infrastructure: APIs. Today we are the trusted choice for over 200 of the worlds most innovative companies from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 and Nasdaq leaders. Our unified platform provides full-lifecycle API security helping teams discover their attack surface protect against modern threats and respond to incidents in real-time. As a graduate of Y Combinator and fueled by a recent $55M Series C we are scaling our global remote-first team of 150 innovators to solve the next generation of security challenges.

Were building ML-powered detection systems that protect APIs from automated abuse credential stuffing scraping enumeration and attack patterns that evolve daily. This is a greenfield effort: we have the data and the ideas but the ML infrastructure pipelines and models need to be built from scratch.

Youll be the first dedicated ML engineer on the team working closely with engineers security researchers and DevOps. This is a senior IC role with a clear path to technical leadership - we plan to grow the ML function around this hire.

What Youll Do

• Build the ML stack from the ground up - Design and implement the data pipelines feature extraction model training and serving infrastructure needed for production-grade anomaly detection.

• Detecting anomalies in API traffic - Your first major outcome: build a system that identifies malicious behavioral patterns across client sessions with high precision and recall trained per-client.

• Own the full lifecycle - From raw data exploration and feature engineering through model development evaluation deployment and continuous monitoring. No handoffs to a separate productionization team.

• Design experiments and metrics - Build offline evaluations define detection-quality metrics and monitor for false positives drift and adversarial adaptation.

• Work with text and structured behavioral data - Extract signals from API sessions request sequences payloads and traffic metadata using NLP and statistical techniques.

• Leverage LLMs where they add value - Explore embedding-based models and LLM-augmented approaches for signal enrichment classification and explainability.

• Shape the technical direction - Document findings present to cross-functional teams and help define the ML roadmap as the team grows.

What Were Looking For

• 5 years in Applied ML or ML Engineering with production deployment experience (not research-only backgrounds).

• Strong NLP / text data experience - hands-on work with text classification pattern extraction tokenization embeddings or similar. This is the core of the work.

• Proficiency in Python and production-grade systems (APIs data pipelines model serving).

• Solid data engineering skills - experience building ETL/data pipelines working with batch and streaming data and understanding the full ML data lifecycle (DAGs data versioning feature stores).

• Deep hands-on experience across ML fundamentals: classification anomaly detection clustering statistical methods - and the judgment to choose the right approach for a given problem.

• Comfort with imperfect data - noisy labels class imbalance evolving distributions - and practical strategies for labeling evaluation and shipping reliable models.

• End-to-end ownership mindset - ability to take a problem from raw data to production deployment working with DevOps to stand up the necessary infrastructure.

• Strong experimentation skills: prototype fast design rigorous evaluations measure outcomes reason about trade-offs (cost quality latency).

  Strongly Preferred

• Experience in domains where adversaries actively adapt to detection (fraud bot mitigation abuse prevention spam). The ML mindset of handling concept drift and adversarial evasion matters more than specific domain knowledge.

• Familiarity with ML lifecycle tooling: experiment tracking (MLflow W&B) model versioning (DVC) weak-supervision tools (Snorkel cleanlab) drift monitoring.

• Experience with big data / streaming stacks (Spark Kafka BigQuery) or cloud ML platforms (AWS SageMaker GCP Vertex).

• Background in security research or threat intelligence (not required - domain context can be learned).

  Who Thrives Here

• Youre a full-stack ML engineer - equally comfortable building a data pipeline and tuning a model designing an experiment and deploying it to production.

• Youve built from scratch before - you know what it takes to go from we have data and ideas to we have a working detection system.

• Youre energized by ambiguity and ownership - this isnt a well-scoped ticket queue its an open problem space where you define the path.

• Youre ready to grow into leadership - mentoring engineers shaping technical strategy and owning the ML roadmap as the team scales around you.

• You leverage modern tools (AI-assisted development LLM-augmented workflows) to move faster without cutting corners.