Arctic Wolf
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Job Description At Arctic Wolf, you won’t just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve – you'll help lead the change.
At Arctic Wolf, you won’t just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve – you'll help lead the change. Our global Pack is made up of people who thrive on solving hard problems, moving fast, and building technology that protects organizations around the world. We’re proud to be recognized by Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, CRN, Gartner Peer Insights and IDC MarketScape – but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform.
If you’re looking for meaningful work, smart teammates and the chance to make a real impact in a high-growth company that’s redefining security operations, Arctic Wolf is the right place for you!
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Staff Developer - Exposure Management Platform to be part of making this happen.
Position Overview and Objective
The Arctic Wolf security operations platform ingests and processes upwards of 250 billion events a day from a wide variety of on-premise devices and cloud platforms. The security pipeline is a distributed system of loosely-coupled microservices that constitute our real-time analysis and threat detection systems. These services distill the incoming events into actionable intelligence that our Concierge Security Teams use to protect customers.
We are growing rapidly, with our data volume increasing ten-fold roughly every two years. We are looking for staff developers to join our pack and provide technical leadership for the architecture, reliability, and long-term evolution of our security platform. This particular role focuses on shaping technical strategy and end-to-end delivery for components of our Managed Risk Platform while driving cross-team alignment, reusable design patterns, and engineering excellence.
Lead large engineering projects and end-to-end delivery for exposure management and real-time threat analysis capabilities across multiple services or teams.
Create comprehensive high-level designs (HLDs), evaluate architectural trade-offs with incomplete information, and align solutions with platform architecture blueprints and long-term customer security objectives.
Develop reusable design patterns, frameworks, and technical standards that improve reliability, scalability, observability, performance, and maintainability across the domain.
Own incident findings and systemic fixes for production services, driving RCA, operational readiness, and continuous improvement across team-owned systems.
Unblock teams on complex technical challenges, recommend work breakdown and sequencing, and ensure delivery quality and timelines for major initiatives.
Coordinate architecture and dependencies across product, UX, security operations, DevOps, QA, and engineering partners to drive pragmatic cross-team alignment.
Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders across functions, raising engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of experience shipping production-quality backend software, with demonstrated ownership of large systems, domains, or multi-team initiatives in production.
Expert-level coding and system design skills with a track record of delivering scalable, maintainable, and reliable solutions to complex distributed-systems problems.
Broad experience designing, scaling, and operating cloud-based distributed systems, preferably on AWS, with strong judgment around reliability, cost, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
Strong hands-on experience with Golang is preferred; deep Java or other backend development experience with the ability to work across languages is also valuable.
Strong experience with PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, and production observability practices is preferred.
Experienced creating HLDs, technical strategies, reusable patterns, and implementation approaches that guide multiple engineers or teams.
Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives, resolve ambiguous requirements, manage dependencies, and align stakeholders around pragmatic trade-offs.
Experienced in incident response, RCA, systemic reliability improvements, and operational excellence for high-scale production systems.
Passionate about mentoring engineers and emerging leaders, improving team practices, and growing technical capability across functions.
Excited to work at the intersection of big data, cybersecurity, and real-time systems while aligning technical decisions to customer security outcomes.
Our Technology Stack
Golang, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes/EKS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Java, Linux.
On-Camera Policy
To support a fair, transparent, and engaging interview experience, candidates interviewing remotely are expected to be on camera during all video interviews. Being on camera fosters authentic connection, improves communication, and allows for full engagement from both candidates and interviewers. We understand that technical, bandwidth, or location-related challenges may occasionally prevent video use. If this applies, candidates are required to notify us in advance so we can explore appropriate accommodations.
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 (2021-2025), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2025), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – UK (2024-2026), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024-2026). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 10,000 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.
All India wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:
Equity for all employees
Flexible annual leave, paid holidays and volunteer days
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
Employee Assistance Program
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 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 accommodation by emailing recruiting@arcticwolf.com. View our Hiring Page to learn more about our application process.
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.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). Please note that, if applicable, an offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export control laws and regulations.
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