Senior Software Developer, Arctic Wolf
Real-Time Processing Platform
CA$75-246k
+ Equity
Computer and network security
Be an early applicant
Computer and network security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$75-246k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To end Cyber Risk through effective security operations.
Role
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
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 organisations seeking streamlined security through unified technology. With 5,200 global organisations onboard, Arctic Wolf sets cybersecurity benchmarks, utilising advanced AI and open-XDR architecture to analyse over 5.23 trillion security events weekly.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Leadership
Nick Schneider
(President & CEO)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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