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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.\nIf 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!\nOur mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Developer to be part of making that happen.\nAbout the Role\nWe are an innovation team within R&D, building internal products that power our Threat Intelligence and Detection authoring teams to secure our customers.\nWorking at petabyte scale, we build systems that enhance existing detections and unlock entirely new detection capabilities. We are mission-driven to secure the customer. We don't just follow industry standards, we help define them, building detection systems that set the bar for what's possible in cyber defence.\nThe team is responsible for the ingestion, correlation, and operationalization of threat intelligence for both detection and research purposes. We are committed to teaching, supporting, and growing one another while owning outcomes end to end, from greenfield ideation through to deploying industry-first detection capabilities.\nThis role is for a highly skilled developer responsible for delivering major product features independently, mentoring team members, and driving technical excellence across software development practices. The role plays a key part in architecture, design, and strategic initiatives.\nThe ideal candidate has comprehensive knowledge of software development practices, mastery over writing and debugging code, and provides feedback to others on the team. They perform complex programming tasks and implement software systems, often including other team members as part of the effort. They assume responsibility for the quality and delivery of their code, participate in architecture reviews and technical design sessions, and complete major product features with little or no guidance while resolving dependencies across teams.\nOur team is collaborative and cross-functional, working closely with data scientists, security researchers, and SOC analysts. We maintain a high-quality bar, with a culture of consistent iteration, monitoring, and improvement, and regularly meet with internal customers to understand their needs and design solutions that address them.\nResponsibilities\nConsistent and active participation in team development activities, including daily scrums, retrospectives, Test Fest, and related ceremonies. Consistently embodies team values and upholds others to.\n\nJoins daily standup and takes on tasks by priority, such as proactively selecting the next story.\n\nSupports the on-call rotation.\n\nSupports other developers by unblocking them and providing training as needed.\n\nSets standards for maintainable code practices and continuously improves them.\n\nEmbodies quality from requirements, use cases, design, and code.\n\nCompletes complex programming tasks.\n\nParticipates in and often owns architecture and high-level design meetings.\n\nReviews peers’ code and provides detailed feedback.\n\nTakes an active role in retrospectives, Test Fest, and similar activities.\n\nTakes ownership of cross-functional dependencies and aligns with other teams.\n\nCoaches through pairing, code examples, and knowledge share sessions.\n\nReviews and provides input to high-level designs.\n\nMaintains awareness of business objectives, identifies how work applies to those objectives, and identifies new opportunities for work to support business objectives.\n\nUnderstands design patterns and design anti-patterns.\n\nHelps grow and develop others on the team.\n\nMentors junior team members.\n\nIdentifies and addresses technical debt and system bottlenecks, raising and resolving risks.\n\nAligns deliverables with broader business objectives and OKRs.\n\nDesigns and delivers Proofs of Concept (POCs) for high-impact projects.\n\nLeads brainstorming sessions for architectural and strategic initiatives.\n\nWorks on Proofs of Concept (POCs) to clarify approaches.\n\nIdentifies patterns and anti-patterns to drive best practices.\n\nInnovates solutions that address strategic goals.\n\nLeads high-impact, cross-functional initiatives.\n\nRemoves complex technical debt in the system.\n\nProvides strategy and direction.\n\nIdentifies “better together” solutions.\n\nProvides strategic direction on complex technical challenges.\n\nActively mentors’ engineers on a regular weekly cadence.\n\nWorks across multiple repositories and teams.\n\nConducts knowledge sharing sessions.\n\nLeads technical workshops.\n\nWorks with multiple stakeholders, including PMs and PgMs.\n\nDrives post-mortems and retrospectives.\n\nAbout You\nEnthusiastic, collaborative, team player, ready to accept the challenge to end cyber risk\n\nTakes full ownership of outcomes - a true product engineer at heart, you drive work from ideation through delivery and beyond, treating every product as your own and holding yourself accountable for its real-world impact\n\nExperienced working directly with internal customers - identifying pain points and turning them into innovative, implemented solutions\n\nHands-on building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines on cloud-based platforms\n\nProficient with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its native data and compute services\n\nFamiliar with streaming frameworks like Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, or Flink\n\nExperience designing and shipping production-grade RESTful or gRPC APIs, with a strong grasp of scaling and throughput management\n\nSkilled at scaling stateless and stateful services under production load, including low-latency, multi-regional backend systems\n\nGrounded in security best practices and standards\n\nComfortable deploying and operating services in containerized environments such as Kubernetes\n\nComfortable and pragmatic about AI - you adopt it where it delivers real value and hold a high bar for quality and ROI\n\nSuccess in this Role\nTakes full ownership of major product features and ensures successful delivery\n\nDrives alignment between engineering deliverables and organizational strategy\n\nEstablishes best practices and introduces innovative solutions to systemic challenges\n\nIntroduces innovative solutions to organizational problems\n\nDrives systemic improvements and sets best practices\n\nDrives innovation and alignment across the organization\n\nResolves systemic technical challenges while advancing strategic initiatives\n\nImproves team processes and decision-making\n\nAligns outcomes with organizational goals\n\nOn-Camera Policy\nTo 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.\nAbout Arctic Wolf\nAt 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.\nOur Values\nArctic 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.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nAll wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:\nEquity for all employees\n\nFlexible time off and paid volunteer days\n\nRRSP and 401k match\n\nTraining and career development programs\n\nComprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services\n\nRobust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services\n\nFertility support and paid parental leave\n\nArctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, 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 .\nSecurity Requirements\nConducts 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).\n\nBackground checks are required for this position.\n\nThe base salary range for this job family is 75,000 to 246,000 CAD annually. 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