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/an Staff Developer to be part of making this/that happen.
Position Overview and Objective
As a Staff Developer, you’ll take a leadership role in designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services that power our cybersecurity solutions. You'll mentor junior developers, drive architectural decisions, and work closely with front-end engineers, security teams, and DevOps to create robust and efficient systems.
Responsibilities
Architect, develop and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services.
Design and implement and make use of RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and micro-services to support backend applications and Integration systems.
Optimise system performance, security, and reliability for large-scale cloud applications.
Collaborate with other developers, security teams, and DevOps engineers to drive backend innovation.
Work with databases to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
Implement authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
Guide and mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.
Continuously improve development processes and promote backend best practices.
Drive integration of LLMs and autonomous agents into the existing systems to enhance accuracy and decrease component delivery time.
Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority, influencing through expertise and collaboration.
Interact with Product Managers to ensure seamless delivery of components to production.
Experience & Requirements
9+ years of experience in backend development, with exposure to full-stack development.
Expertise in any of the programming languages such as Python(preferred) or Go
Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, and micro-services architecture.
Experience with databases (such as PostgreSQL, MYSQL).
Proficiency in asynchronous programming, multithreading, and performance optimisation from a Platform stand point.
Familiarity with message queues (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).
Strong understanding of security best practices, authentication, and authorisation mechanisms.
Proficiency in AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and ECS.
Good Understanding of AI native tools (such as lang chain, lang fuse) and experience in development lifecycle with AI-DLC
Nice to have skills
Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS) and cloud-native architectures.
Experience working with AWS, Azure or GCP .
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Familiarity with cybersecurity products like XDR, MDR, SOC
Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST, MITRE
Strong experience with Git for version control.
Interest in cybersecurity and security operations.
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,…