Senior Staff Developer

Job Description

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 Staff Developer, Engineering to be part of making this happen.

Position Overview

The Senior Staff Developer, Engineering - Endpoint leads the development and delivery of Arctic Wolf’s Aurora Endpoint product line, driving execution of high-quality, secure, and scalable endpoint solutions.

This role is responsible for a distributed engineering organization, including a well-established team based in Bangalore, India, delivering across multiple concurrent initiatives. The leader will ensure strong alignment with product strategy, consistent execution, and high-performing team dynamics across global teams.

A critical mandate of this role is to lead the adoption of AI-driven software engineering practices, enabling teams to leverage modern tooling to improve development velocity, code quality, and delivery outcomes.

Position Overview and Objective

This role provides deep technical leadership and ownership across multiple teams within a department, driving strategic technical direction, solving complex engineering challenges, and mentoring technical leaders. The individual is responsible for end-to-end delivery of large-scale projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and future scalability.

This position is based in Bangalore, India and requires close collaboration with engineering teams in North America (USA and Canada). Arctic Wolf places a strong emphasis on quality and efficiency; candidates must demonstrate consistent excellence in delivering high-quality outcomes. A strong understanding of applying AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) across the software development lifecycle to improve efficiency and task completion is required.

Job Scope

Leverages AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude to improve efficiency across coding, debugging, testing, and documentation tasks within the SDLC.

Applies AI-assisted workflows to increase productivity while maintaining strong standards of quality.

Experience training or enabling team members in the effective use of AI tools is desired.

Strong focus on Windows systems development, including a strong preference for kernel/driver level development experience.

Experience within cybersecurity environments, particularly Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR), is highly desired.

Maintains a strong commitment to Arctic Wolf’s focus on quality, efficiency, and engineering excellence.

Provides deep technical ownership and technical leadership across multiple services and teams, typically focused in one area or R&D Department and associated teams. Has the ability to perform programming tasks and large engineering projects with Independence and expertise. Responsible for guiding and mentoring other staff members. Regularly lead technical projects. Sometimes help decide on a problem to focus on. Mastery over software development best practices. Develops reusable design patterns. Responsible for end-to-end delivery of projects.

• Activities:
  • Represents technical needs for department to other R&D VP Areas
  • Identifies and leads department level improvement initiatives
  • Join daily standup as often as possible across teams, supporting how work can be assigned to team members
• Outcomes:
  • Accountable for the technical direction of the overall Department
  • Coding, Unit Testing, Test Automation in a timely manner, meeting commitments
  • "How do we solve a specific hard technical problem, ensure our teams work align together, and look forward to how to handle future needs around scale?"

Complexity & Problem Solving

Deep expertise in one or more technical domains supporting work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Requires conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Accountable for results, which may impact the entire function.

• Activities:
  • Reviews and signs off on HLDs and provides feedback and alignment to our Aspirational Architecture
  • Supports teams in Department by joining team and providing implementation support for more difficult or error prone areas of coding
  • Ensuring teams are following Architecture Blueprints, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done and standards for things like Unit Tests and Test Automation
• Outcomes:
  • Effectively drives alignment and consensus (final technical call)
  • Demonstrates clear ownership of the quality and operation of all team services

Knowledge & Experience

Applies broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines. Leads and contributes to development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Strong expertise in Windows internals, with experience in low-level and kernel development preferred, particularly within cybersecurity domains such as EDR/MDR solutions. Demonstrates ability to apply AI tools to enhance engineering workflows and outcomes.

• Activities:
  • Deep experience with multiple full-stack development frameworks, self-driven to learn new development frameworks and practices
  • Technically knowledgeable on technologies and interactions across components within the department (is the final voice on technical decisions)
  • Demonstrates value in needed standards such as test automation across multiple teams
• Outcomes:
  • Mentors team members across all functions and/or technical expertise (ie. coordinates and run technical 1-1 with Team)
  • Joins on incident post-mortems to understand issues teams are seeing and providing coaching guidance on how to address

Collaboration & Interaction

Influences multiple teams in an area to drive cross-team initiatives. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups. Focuses on providing thought leadership and works on broader organization projects, which requires understanding of wider business. Requires conveying advanced information and persuading several diverse stakeholders/audiences. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert. May direct the activities of others.

Influences the work of a group of 2-3 teams. Indirectly influences work of department and closely related Arctic Wolf teams. Mentors R&D technical leaders in a specific domain.

• Activities:
  • Experience with working across multiple software development teams, with ability to coach others of tooling to ensure collaboration (ie. pair programming)
  • Cross multiple teams’ coordination of moving towards aspirational architecture
  • Reviewing team standards of maintainable code practice and continuously improving upon them
  • Consistently responsive (not meaning speed but does keep on top of) communication with the team (ie. slack, email, standups)
  • Clearly shares status and need for support using positive and appropriate language
• Outcomes:
  • Propose, review and approve coding standards and PR standards (may need to do some mentoring to support)
  • Identifies improvement opportunities and drives alignment for improvement focused change
  • Coaching Developers through pairing, code examples, or knowledge share sessions

Achieve Results

Owns large systems or domains, drives technical direction, and leads review for larger impact incident response.

Environment and Physical Demands

• Work is primarily sedentary in nature and can be executed sitting or standing positions in an office environment.
• Requires ability to utilize technology related to using a keyboard, verbal communication, and work with device screens which require visual acuity.
• If located in a company office, often requires the mobility to physically navigate space.
• In the event of business travel, mobility is sufficient to utilize public and private transport and navigate to essential locations.
• May include moving or lifting of 25 pounds or less (e.g. office chair, reams of paper).

Travel Requirements

Typically, 10% or less of business travel

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.