Senior Developer

At Arctic Wolf, we're redefining the cybersecurity landscape. With our employee Pack members, spread out globally, committed to setting new industry standards. Our accomplishments speak for themselves, from our recognition in the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fortune Future 50, and Fortune Cyber 60 to winning the 2024 CRN Products of the Year award. We’re proud to be named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Services and earning a Customers' Choice distinction from Gartner Peer Insights. Our Aurora Platform also received CRN’s Products of the Year award in the inaugural Security Operations Platform category. Join a company that’s not only leading, but also shaping, the future of security operations.
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Developer to be a part of making this happen.

About the Role:
The Senior Software Developer will contribute to our Arctic Wolf Labs department, by contributing to initiatives and developing innovative systems, services, and frameworks for the next generation security research initiatives of Arctic Wolf Labs. We are looking for experienced developers to join our pack and work with us to continuously evolve and expand the capabilities of our security products and services.
Arctic Wolf Labs is the research-focused division at Arctic Wolf focused on advancing innovation in the field of security operations. The mission of Arctic Wolf Labs is to develop cutting-edge technology and tools that are designed to enhance the company’s core mission to end cyber risk, while also bringing comprehensive security intelligence to Arctic Wolf’s customer base and the security community-at-large. Leveraging the more than two trillion security events the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud ingests, parses, enriches, and analyzes each week, Arctic Wolf Labs is responsible for performing threat research on new and emerging adversaries, developing advanced threat detection models, and driving improvement in the speed, scale, and detection abilities of Arctic Wolf’s solution offerings. The Arctic Wolf Labs team comprises security and threat intelligence researchers, data scientists, and security development engineers with deep domain knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI), security R&D, as well as advanced threat offensive and defensive methods and technologies. Security Research Services Development partners with these groups to understand requirements, design & implement scalable, fault-tolerant solutions, and build the next generation of security capabilities for Arctic Wolf.

You Will:

Own R&D of distributed, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

Use test-driven development techniques to develop beautiful, efficient, and secure code

Create and scale high-performance services in a real-time threat analysis pipeline

Document and maintain software functionality and specifications

Identify problems proactively and propose novel solutions to solve them

Continuously learn and expand your technical horizons
 

We're looking for someone with:

5+ years of experience with architecting, and developing new highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed services for high throughput and low latency from ground up in a complex production system

Excellent understanding of key design patterns (creational, structural, behavioural) and architectural patterns including MVC, Microservices Architecture, Functions as a service (lambda functions), serverless design, Async Programming Patterns, Reactive and Event Driven Programming

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Elastic Search), KV stores (Redis etc.), Message Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.), Event-Driven Compute Frameworks (Step Functions, Lambda Functions), Stream and Batch Data Processing (Apache Spark, Flink) in production

Excellent understanding of Object-oriented, Reactive and Event-Driven Programming concepts and willingness to pick up new object-oriented languages suitable for the job

5+ years of experience in building and shipping scalable microservices and APIs

Demonstrable experience with integrating, refactoring, and troubleshooting services in a large production system

Experience with developing and deploying in the cloud preferably AWS using IAC (infrastructure as code)

Experience with JavaScript frontend and backend development frameworks (React, Angular, Node etc.)

Familiarity with CI / CD tools including Jenkins, Bamboo, Terraform etc.

Experience architecting, designing, developing, testing, and delivering software in an agile environment

Good understanding of functional programming concepts a plus

Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts is an asset

All wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:  

·       Equity for all employees 

·       Flexible annual leave, paid holidays and volunteer days 

·       Training and career development programs 

·       Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical insurance for you and your family, life insurance (3x compensation), and personal accident insurance. 

·       Fertility support and paid parental leave 

 
At Arctic Wolf, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that thrives on diversity of thought, background, and culture. This is reflected in our multiple awards, including Top Workplace USA (2021-2024), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – UK (2024), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 7,000 customers worldwide and more than 2,000 channel partners globally. As we continue to expand globally and enhance our technology, Arctic Wolf remains the most trusted name in the industry. 
 

Our Values 

Arctic Wolf recognizes that success comes from delighting our customers, so we work together to ensure that happens every day. We believe in diversity and inclusion, and truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization. And we appreciate that—by protecting people’s and organizations’ sensitive data and seeking to end cyber risk— we get to work in an industry that is fundamental to the greater good.  

We celebrate unique perspectives by creating a platform for all voices to be heard through our Pack Unity program. We encourage all employees to join or create a new alliance. See more about our Pack Unity here.   

We also believe and practice corporate responsibility, and have recently joined the Pledge 1% Movement, ensuring that we continue to give back to our community. We know that through our mission to End Cyber Risk we will continue to engage and give back to our communities. 

Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming, accessible, respectful, and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. As such, we strive to make our entire employee experience as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodations by emailing recruiting@arcticwolf.com.  

Security Requirements

Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies).

Background checks are required for this position.