Senior Principal Architect, Arctic Wolf
Salary not provided
+ Equity + Bonus or commission pay based on role
AWS
Python
Java
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US
Computer and network security
Open for applications
Computer and network security
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaSCyber Security
Open for applications
Salary not provided
+ Equity + Bonus or commission pay based on role
AWS
Python
Java
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaSCyber Security
Company mission
To end Cyber Risk through effective security operations.
Role
Who you are
- You are an expert Architect, Software Developer, or technical leader who oversees multiple architecture domains across an organization
- You have proven technical leadership experience and learnings from previous projects, regardless of title held
- You have been central in introducing novel and innovative solutions, have experience writing software, and have deep knowledge across multiple domains
- You enjoy learning new concepts, technology research and experimentation
- You are a mentor to technical leaders across multiple domains, and coach to architects and developers
- You are comfortable communicating technical ideas to audiences of different skill levels, including to executive leadership
- You create formal networks with key decision makers and are widely recognized as an expert and thought leader
- Experience designing frameworks for ingest, event streaming, and API architectures, and measurement and analysis of streaming data pipeline and data lake architectures operating at 100’s billion+ messages per day
- Experience working with endpoint, network, and cloud cybersecurity and/or other vendor integrations
- Experience with data analytics, mining and interpreting data to identify data value, and predict future growth
- Understanding of security assessment and detection rules, security investigations, and SOC workflows
- Experience with schema management, data lineage, regulating for protection, quota, and data value
- Experience creating third-party and self-service ecosystem for vendor integration and development and/or familiarity of edge compute, AWS, flow control, network traffic flow logs, dns, infrastructure scanning technologies
- Proven history of technical leadership of successful projects and lessons learned from failures
- History of being central to introducing novel and innovative solutions
- Knowledge of current industry and emerging technologies, to compare against and innovate on these technologies
- Experience in technical architecture, system architecture, solution architecture, and enterprise architecture
- Experience in software development with Golang, Python, Java or a similar high-level language
- Mastery of technical details, best practices, and design patterns across multiple domains
- History of making and defending, effective decisions using data and research, and accepting feedback
- Proven History of explaining technical concepts using audience-specific language for audiences with different technical skill levels
- Previous security experience is preferred but not required. We provide all the cybersecurity training you need during onboarding and on-the-job training
What the job involves
- Arctic wolf is looking for a Senior Principal Architect - Integrations and Data Value to provide architectural leadership for our Integrations and Data Value areas
- As a Senior Principal Architect, you will begin with a focus on leading one or both of the Integrations, or the Data Value Areas, for Arctic Wolf
- For Integrations, you will be responsible for accelerating integrations development with third-party security providers, by providing insight how each integration will be used, by leading a blueprint for improving the efficiency and quality of integration development, ingestion, parsing, detection rules, and schema decisions, and designing frameworks for understanding integration health and coverage, and regulating for protection and data value
- For Data Value, you will be responsible for defining our data value based on what we’re promising to customers, what data we need to fulfill those promises, what we’re using, and how much it costs
- This will include defining frameworks and concrete measures of how much it costs us to store and process data on a per-customer basis, insights into what data we can drop at different stages of our pipeline, and what data provides us value for our detections, security investigations, and its impact on customer outcomes
- In these related areas, you'll be responsible for providing architectural and thought leadership for this area and may subsequently move to other areas of focus
- As a Senior Principal Architect at Arctic Wolf, you are a member of the Architecture team and lead the architectural and technical vision of an R&D department for Arctic Wolf's production products
- In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders and the existing development teams to build and own the architectural strategy
- You indirectly influence all of the product team and will be responsible for guiding and coaching technical leaders across multiple domains and partnering closely with the teams that own the tech stack
- Your role is to work on issues that impact program success or addresses future concepts and products, requiring a longer-term view to meet strategic goals and objectives, and requiring evaluation based on limited information, and exercising of independent judgment of the trade-offs involved
- You serve as an expert in the field and principal advisor and thought leader, applying extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design to your architectural analysis and recommendations
- You lead the application of existing principles and are central to introducing novel and innovative solutions for your department
- The vision and strategy in your focused area
- Working across the product team and partners and stakeholders outside of the product team to define and execute on that area and how that area rolls up to support the company’s overall strategic vision
- Owning the technical and architectural vision, product design and architectural decisions within your architecture area
- Providing insight and understanding to architects and R&D for their realm of expertise, and to keep abreast of new developments
- Analyzing, recommending, and developing POCs and prototypes of architecture designs, technologies, 3rd party tools and integrations
- Identifying and evaluating trade-offs between various architectural decisions to inform design choices
- Providing technical oversight, guidance and coaching to architects, product management, developers and engineers
- Ensuring that our software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc
- Contributing to all levels of architecture applicable to their realm of expertise
Application process
- Phone pre-screening: A recruiter and an R&D manager will contact you to briefly discuss your work history and provide an overview of Arctic Wolf. Approximately 30 minutes
- Technical assessment: A recruiter sends you a link to a straightforward technical assessment that is relevant to the role you are applying for. Approximately 1 hour
- Face-to-face interviews: Several team members conduct two interviews to learn more about you and conduct a technical review based on the assessment completed. Be prepared to collaborate on a technical problem and talk more about past projects and your career goals. Approximately 1.5 hours combined for interview
- Final Review: R&D Director or Manager for an interested team will connect to describe the team, projects and ensure a final fit with the team
Our take
Founded in 2021, Arctic Wolf has emerged as a pivotal player in cybersecurity with its concierge approach to Security operations as a Service (SOCaaS). Arctic Wolf addresses the challenges of managing diverse cybersecurity systems and combating alert fatigue through its cloud-managed detection and response solutions.
Two of the many challenges facing digital enterprises are: having to manage dozens of different complex cybersecurity systems, and knowing what is actionable and an immediate threat (known as alert fatigue). Arctic Wolf’s platform offers cloud-managed detection and response systems, continual risk management and security awareness, solving both challenges.
Arctic Wolf's platform is now a top choice for organizations seeking streamlined security through unified technology. With 5,200 global organizations onboard, Arctic Wolf sets cybersecurity benchmarks, utilizing advanced AI and open-XDR architecture to analyze over 5.23 trillion security events weekly.
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2022
$401m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $899.2m
Company 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
Company values
- Security: Our first responsibility is to our customers and their security.
- People: We delight our customers, deliver value to our partners, and work to foster a diverse and inclusive team
- Transparency: We share information, ideas, feedback, and concerns
- Innovation: We focus on technology and solutions that secure customers today and in the future
Company HQ
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Articles
Leadership
Nick Schneider
(President & CEO, not founder)Joined Arctic Wolf in 2016 as the Head of Worldwide Sales and worked their way through the roles to become CEO in 2021. Previously the vice-president of sales for Code42.
Brian NeSmith
(Founder)Previously the president and CEO of Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
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