At Arctic Wolf, we're not just navigating the cybersecurity landscape - we're redefining it. Our global team of dedicated Pack members is driving innovation and setting new industry standards every day. Our impact speaks for itself: we've earned recognition on the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50,
Fortune Future 50, and Fortune Cyber 60 lists, and we recently took home the 2024 CRN Products of the Year award. We’re proud to be named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Services and earning a Customers' Choice distinction from Gartner Peer Insights. Our Aurora Platform also received CRN’s Products of the Year award in the inaugural Security Operations Platform category. Join a company that’s not only leading, but also shaping, the future of security operations.
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk.
We’re looking for a Senior Developer 2 to be part of making this happen.
As a Senior Developer 2, You will work across the full technology stack—building scalable backend services, modern user experiences, and cloud-native solutions. In addition to delivering high-impact features, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices, and collaborate across teams to shape the technical direction of the platform. You will collaborate closely with our Engineering, Product, and Customer Success teams to guarantee release readiness and high-quality delivery with a heavy focus on automation, reliability, and quality assurance.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of professional experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer.
Strong experience building production-grade applications across both frontend and backend technologies.
Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go and Python (Bonus - React).
Experience designing and building REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architectures.
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC; e.g. Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management tools
Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS and cloud networking concepts and architecture (VPCs, subnetting, routing, CDNs, load balancers, security groups)
Experience with Azure cloud platform and services
Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel) with a focus on deploying to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
Experience with build tools and systems (e.g., Make, Bazel)
Expertise in release automation and orchestration frameworks/tools
Experience with code quality and security tooling (e.g. SonarQube)
Strong understanding of release engineering principles and best practices
Strong system design, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams.
Experience preparing, reviewing and executing deployment plans, release plans, MOPs and rollback procedures for production environments
Proficiency across multiple operating systems and platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS; Intel, ARM)
Experience leading an Agile/Scrum team
Experience owning or orchestrating large-scale or enterprise software releases
Preferred Qualifications
Experience debugging and deciphering network and/or endpoint device logs
Experience delivering and deploying cloud-based software as well as endpoint software
Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms (e.g. Grafana/Prometheus/Sentry/Datadog)
About the Role
You'll be working as a Senior Developer 2 on our MDR Endpoint cloud team, responsible for ensuring quality through automation, executing deployments, and maintaining the reliability of Arctic Wolf's endpoint software across multiple platforms and cloud environments.
Some of your day-to-day responsibilities will be:
Act as the technical lead of the team, focused on designing, architecting, and overseeing all the team’s projects
Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases across customer environments and geographies
Design and implement automated builds, testing, deployment, and rollback strategies
Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and workflows for cloud-based services
Build and maintain quality gates and validation frameworks to ensure release readiness
Collaborate with software developers, QA, customer support, and product teams to ensure high-quality delivery
Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues and assist with root cause analysis
Manage and optimize infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and vSphere environments
Build runbooks and documentation for internal teams and end users
Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements during deployments
Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes, leveraging automation to ensure efficiency, reliability, and quality
Evaluate and implement new relevant technologies and tools
Mentor junior engineers
Assist and contribute to intra/inter-team planning
We value a culture of sharing, so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly meetings. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon, teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus, some of these ideas do make it into our products.
About You
You're a proactive and detail-oriented professional with a quality-first mindset and a passion for delivering reliable, secure software to customers in dynamic, multi-platform environments. Your DevOps/SRE experience enables you to bridge development ,testing, deployment, and operations seamlessly. Your analytical skills enable you to resolve complex issues efficiently across diverse platforms and cloud environments, while your collaborative mindset ensures effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams. You are committed to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards of quality, security, documentation, and process improvement in all projects you undertake
We value a culture of sharing, so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon, teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus, some of these ideas do make it into our products.
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 (2021-2024), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024),
Great Place to Work – UK (2024), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 7,000 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 wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:
Equity for all employees
Flexible time off and paid volunteer days
RRSP and 401k match
Training and career development programs
Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services
Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services
Fertility support and paid parental leave
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.
Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, 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 employee 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 accommodations by emailing [email protected].
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional experience as a full-stack software engineer
- Experience building production-grade applications across frontend and backend technologies
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages, such as Go and Python
- Experience with REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architectures
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation, and configuration management tools
- Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, and cloud networking concepts
- Experience with the Azure cloud platform and services
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Bazel
- Experience with build tools and systems such as Make or Bazel
- Expertise in release automation and orchestration frameworks or tools
- Experience with code quality and security tooling such as SonarQube
- Strong understanding of release engineering principles and best practices
- Strong system design, debugging, and performance optimization skills
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams
- Experience preparing, reviewing, and executing deployment plans, release plans, MOPs, and rollback procedures for production environments
- Proficiency across Windows, Linux, macOS, Intel, and ARM platforms
- Experience leading an Agile/Scrum team
- Experience owning or orchestrating large-scale or enterprise software releases
- Experience debugging network or endpoint device logs
- Experience delivering and deploying cloud-based and endpoint software
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, or Datadog
Arctic Wolf Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arctic Wolf and has not been reviewed or approved by Arctic Wolf.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive plans in sales roles are seen as strong when targets are met, with on‑target earnings positioned as competitive. This dynamic helps explain notably higher satisfaction in sales relative to other functions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is included for all employees across offers, broadening ownership beyond limited groups. Broad access to equity can provide meaningful upside tied to company performance.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible paid time off and dedicated volunteer time off are core parts of the package. These options expand avenues for time away beyond standard vacation and holidays.
Arctic Wolf Insights
What We Do
The cybersecurity industry has an effectiveness problem. Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge, and yet despite this constant innovation we continue to see high profile breaches in the headlines. All organizations know they need better security, but the dizzying array of options leave resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed. At Arctic Wolf, our mission is to End Cyber Risk through effective security operations. To achieve this, we believe that organizations must do three key things:
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