Job Specifications
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. View our Hiring page here to learn more about our application process.
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Lead Software Developer to be part of making that happen.
About The Role
You’ll be working as a lead software developer on our Applications Team, responsible for delivering the cloud-based software that helps solve the real-world security problems that IT professionals face. We develop the internal tools used by the security services team to keep our customers safe and informed.
A lead developer is responsible for providing the team technical direction to deliver high value, performant software solutions. The lead developer will provide technical guidance and direction to a team of developers through the design, implementation and automated/integration testing of our software. They will also provide guidance on best practices for running, monitoring, and maintaining our system. This is different from a Team Lead. The Team lead is responsible for leading the team and projects that team works on.
In This Role, You’ll Get To
Influence the work of team members, and mentor emerging technical leaders.
Demonstrate advanced, wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, concepts and company objectives to develop, resolve complex models and procedures. Provides solutions to issues in creative and effective ways. Understands the interrelationships of different disciplines. Directs the application of existing principles and guides development of new policies and ideas. Build well-designed, testable, efficient, secure code.
Share your deep understanding of the product and how Security Services delivers the service.
Understand and work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Determine methods and procedures on new assignments.
Exercise judgment in selecting methods, evaluating, adapting of complex techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Your work is reviewed upon completion and is consistent with departmental objectives.
Contribute to the growth and mentorship of other team members
Develop trusted cross-team relationships to deliver solutions that span multiple areas of expertise
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 You
You’re an experienced software developer who has the ability to perform programming tasks and large engineering projects with independence and expertise. With the responsibility of the end-to-end delivery of projects, you are responsible for guiding and mentoring other staff members, and regularly lead technical projects. You demonstrate mastery over software development practices, and easily develop reusable design patterns. You easily enhance relationships and networks with senior internal/external partners who are not familiar with the subject matter often requiring persuasion, adapting your style to differing audiences and often advising others on difficult matters.
Here Are Some Of The Core Technologies We Use And Teach Across Our Applications Teams. You Should Have Experience In One Or More Of These, Or Similar Technologies
Python/Django
Go
React/Typescript
AWS
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
In addition, you have proven leadership experience from previous projects, regardless of title held. You have the ability to perform programming tasks and large engineering projects with Independence and expertise. You will be responsible for guiding and mentoring other staff members and will regularly lead technical projects. You have a high level of mastery over software development best practices and building reusable design patterns.
You have a history of delivering successful projects, as well as some lessons learned from failures. Even if you haven’t worked with all of our specific technologies, you bring a diver
About the Company
Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge--yet despite this constant innovation, high-profile breaches are all over the headlines.
In response, organizations have scrambled to develop a better security posture, but the dizzying array of options leaves resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed.
Enter Arctic Wolf, the market leader in Security Operations.
Using the cloud-native Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform, we help organizations end cyber risk by providing security operations as a...
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