Senior Staff Developer
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Job Description
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, Bartner 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 Senior Staff Developer to be part of making this/that happen.
Position Overview and Objective
The Senior Staff Developer will contribute to our Aurora Endpoint Security cloud platform, by leading initiatives to modernize & scale the platform.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and deliver highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native applications powering mission-critical business capabilities.
- Own architecture decisions across applications and infrastructure.
- Lead large-scale modernization initiatives, transforming monolithic systems into cloud-native, containerized, and service-oriented architectures.
- Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Drive system reliability through observability solutions, including metrics, logging, tracing, capacity planning, SRE practices, and proactive monitoring.
- Define and implement secure-by-design architectures, incorporating identity management, encryption, secrets management, threat modeling, compliance controls, and zero-trust principles.
- Partner closely with product leaders, architects, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead critical production incident reviews, root-cause analysis, resiliency improvements, and operational readiness programs.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovations that improve scalability, productivity, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
Experience & Requirements
- 13+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging equally with engineers, architects, executives, and business leaders.
- Significant hands-on experience designing and developing microservices using Java/Go/.Net, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS services, including compute, networking, Caching, storage, messaging, container orchestration, observability, and security services.
- Advanced knowledge of databases, particularly SQL Server, DynamoDB and PostgreSQL, including high-availability architectures, performance tuning, query optimization, partitioning, and replication strategies.
- Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, along with CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and platform engineering best practices.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency models, concurrency, caching, and asynchronous processing using Kafka.
- Good frontend engineering experience using React.
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.
About Arctic Wolf
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
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
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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