Senior Software Developer

Who you are

• 5-10+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems at scale
• Strong background in real-time data processing architectures and high-throughput systems
• Experience delivering production systems end-to-end and driving complex technical initiatives with a high degree of autonomy
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Golang, Python, or Java
• Experience building and deploying services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Proficiency with modern containerized technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable working within microservices architectures and CI/CD environments
• Experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark, Redpanda, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar event-streaming and messaging platforms is an asset
• Exposure to cybersecurity, observability, telemetry, or other data-intensive platforms is preferred
• Passionate about building high-quality software and solving complex engineering problems at extreme scale
• Interested in working at the intersection of large-scale data systems and cybersecurity

What the job involves

• In this role, you will help design, build, and enhance mission-critical services that support event enrichment, detection, correlation, stream processing, and pipeline orchestration at massive scale
• Working at the edge of cloud-native system limits, you will tackle challenging distributed systems problems and contribute to the ongoing evolution of our platform as we continue to scale performance, flexibility, and detection effectiveness in an increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven threat landscape
• Arctic Wolf’s R&D organization builds the systems that power our security operations platform
• The Real-Time Processing Platform Team is responsible for many of the core systems used to enrich, process, correlate, and analyze data that drives detection and analytics across the platform
• You will be part of a team working on foundational systems that directly impact multiple areas of the platform, helping ensure reliability, data quality, and adaptability as requirements evolve
• The team works closely with threat researchers, detection engineers, and security experts across Arctic Wolf
• We build the platforms, frameworks, and real-time processing engines that transform security expertise into scalable detections, enabling security experts to express increasingly sophisticated detection logic at scale while helping Arctic Wolf identify and respond to threats across trillions of events per day
• Design, develop, and enhance core components of Arctic Wolf’s real-time detection and event processing platform
• Build and evolve large-scale distributed systems that process and analyze trillions of events per day in near real-time
• Develop capabilities across event processing systems, detection frameworks, event correlation platforms, and stream-processing infrastructure
• Solve complex engineering challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency in cloud-native environments
• Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of next-generation platform capabilities
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready software and operate systems at massive scale
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve platform effectiveness and operational excellence
• Mentor and support other developers while fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Equity For All Employees: Our salary and benefits packages always include equity, so every employee has a stake in the company’s success
• Pack Unity: We’re on a mission to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and to create positive change in and out of the office
• Professional Development: Arctic Wolf mentors and trains its employees to help their career growth, and encourages and supports employee efforts to enhance their skills and competency through coursework and training
• Flexible Paid Time Off: Arctic Wolf believes that employees should have the opportunity to enjoy time away from work on a flexible basis. Employees are given accountability and authority within their job responsibilities, why not with their flexible time off? We encourage diversity and the ability for you to celebrate the days in the year that are important to you
• Family Forming Benefits: Your family is a part of our Pack, which is why in addition to comprehensive health benefits, we provide access to personalized family-forming support for employees exploring fertility health, those pursuing parenthood, those already pregnant, and other family related benefits
• Volunteer Time Off: As we seek to End Cyber Risk, we also seek to give back to the communities around us, so the world is a safer and better place for all to thrive. All pack members have 3 days of volunteer time off (VTO) to use to give back to their communities in a way that is meaningful to them