Senior Staff Developer

Job Summary

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.

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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