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# Senior Rust Systems Engineer – Embedded Proxy & Appliance at Securly

- **Company:** Securly
- **Location:** Pune City Maharashtra, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://www.securly.com/job-description?gh_jid=8187177

## Job description

Senior Rust Systems Engineer – Embedded Proxy & Appliance

Remote, India | Direct Hire | 6+ Years Total (3+ Years Production Rust)

## About Securly

Securly is a K-12 EdTech company built around one mission: keeping students safe and well, both online and off. Our platform gives schools the infrastructure to filter and monitor web traffic, flag signs of self-harm or bullying, and support student wellness — all while giving IT teams tools that hold up on real school networks, not just in a demo. That mission runs straight through this role: the edge proxy appliance is core infrastructure sitting inside thousands of school networks, and it has to work every single school day, at scale, without fail.

We're a team of roughly 330 people across Pune, the US, and the UK, working across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to build and support that platform. Engineering in Pune plays a central role in building the systems that make Securly's safety mission possible — this isn't a satellite team, it's where core infrastructure like this gets built.

## The Role

If you've spent your career close to the hardware — device drivers, kernel modules, cross-compilation, bring-up on constrained systems — and you're deep in production Rust, this is a chance to own the embedded proxy software running on a fleet of appliances deployed across thousands of school networks, from the OS layer up through the AWS control plane managing it all.

Must-Haves:

- Embedded Linux fundamentals — device drivers, kernel modules, cross-compilation, or hardware bring-up
- 3+ years hands-on production Rust in a systems or embedded context (not app/web Rust)
- 6+ years total engineering experience
- Systems/network programming — TCP stream handling, socket programming, transparent proxying
- Docker/containerization for constrained/appliance deployment
- Performance testing and profiling — load testing, memory/CPU profiling, flame graph analysis
- Working knowledge of AWS and IaC concepts

Strongly Preferred: Named fleet/IoT/embedded device product on your resume, C/C++ or Go alongside Rust, eBPF/netfilter/HAProxy/Envoy exposure

Nice to Have: RADIUS, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/SLOs)

Securly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic.

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## About Securly

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Securly provides an AI-powered platform for K-12 student safety, wellness, and engagement, helping schools protect students online and on campus.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Golden Gate Capital)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (remote-first)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: K-12 EdTech / Student Safety & Wellness
- **Target customers**: K-12 schools and school districts (B2B)
- **Mission**: To keep K-12 students safe, secure, and ready to learn.

## Products & Services
- **Securly Filter (Web Filtering)**: Cloud-based web filter that pioneered the first cloud-based K-12 web filter, enabling schools to manage internet access and block harmful content.
- **Securly Aware (Wellness Monitoring)**: AI-driven student wellness monitoring that flags signs of self-harm, bullying, violence, and other crises across digital platforms, with human analyst support.
- **Securly AI Transparency**: Solution that provides visibility and guardrails for AI tool usage in schools, including prompt-level monitoring and policy-driven controls.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 20+ million students supported across 26,000+ schools; 2,400+ student lives saved (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Golden Gate Capital (board members include Managing Director and Operating Executive). Recognized on the 2026 GSV 150 list and TIME's America's Top EdTech Companies 2026.
- **Growth Signals**: Remote-first culture with 178 total employees (155 in product/tech as of 2026), multiple awards including Built In Best Places to Work 2026 and EdTech Product of the Year. Expanding AI safety and wellness solutions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Longest-running AI-driven student safety and wellness platform** in K-12
- **Comprehensive platform** combining web filtering, wellness monitoring, and AI governance in one solution
- **Strong privacy compliance**: FERPA, COPPA, GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 certified; never sells or rents student data
- **Mission-driven culture** with proven impact (2,400+ lives saved) that attracts talent committed to student well-being

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening AI capabilities** to address emerging challenges like AI tool usage in schools
- **Expanding student wellness** monitoring and intervention tools
- **Scaling enterprise partnerships** and continuing to serve large school districts

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture** with flexible time off, company-paid holidays, and paid winter break
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Fully paid parental leave (birth, adoption, fostering, bonding), 401k with 100% immediate vesting matching, medical/dental/vision, STD/LTD, HSA/FSA, pet insurance, identity theft protection
- **Professional development**: Annual stipend, career development opportunities, employee discount program
- **Award-winning workplace**: Recognized multiple times as a Top Place to Work (Built In 2026) and EdTech Product of the Year
- **Meaningful mission**: Work directly contributes to keeping students safe and supporting educators

## Sources
1. [securly.com/careers](https://www.securly.com/careers)
2. [securly.com/about-us](https://www.securly.com/about-us)
3. [securly.com/](https://www.securly.com/)
4. [builtin.com/company/securly/faq/workplace-perception](https://builtin.com/company/securly/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/securly13](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?for=securly13&token=6960412)

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