Senior Real-Time Platform Engineer for Scalable Security

Arctic Wolf Networks Canada, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 75,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all employees

Flexible time off

Career development

Medical benefits

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Arctic Wolf is seeking an experienced software engineering professional to design, build, and optimize our real-time detection and event-processing platform. You will help scale systems handling trillions of events daily, contributing to detection frameworks and stream-processing infrastructure.

You will work across cloud environments, use modern containerized tech like Docker and Kubernetes, and collaborate with threat researchers and engineers to drive high-availability solutions.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems at scale.
• Strong background in real-time data processing architectures and high-throughput systems.
• Experience delivering production systems end-to-end and driving complex technical initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
• Experience building and deploying services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency with modern containerized technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfortable working within microservices architectures and CI/CD environments.
• Experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark, Redpanda, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar event-streaming and messaging platforms is an asset.
• Exposure to cybersecurity, observability, telemetry, or other data-intensive platforms is preferred.
• Passionate about building high-quality software and solving complex engineering problems at extreme scale.
• Interested in working at the intersection of large-scale data systems and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance core components of Arctic Wolf’s real-time detection and event processing platform.
• Build and evolve large-scale distributed systems that process and analyze trillions of events per day in near real-time.
• Develop capabilities across event processing systems, detection frameworks, event correlation platforms, and stream-processing infrastructure.
• Solve complex engineering challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency in cloud-native environments.
• Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of next-generation platform capabilities.
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready software and operate systems at massive scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve platform effectiveness and operational excellence.
• Mentor and support other developers while fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Distributed systems

Real-time processing

High-throughput systems

Golang

Python

Java

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Spark

Redpanda

RabbitMQ

SQS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Spark

Redpanda

RabbitMQ

SQS

Job description

Arctic Wolf is seeking an experienced software engineering professional to design, build, and optimize our real-time detection and event-processing platform. You will help scale systems handling trillions of events daily, contributing to detection frameworks and stream-processing infrastructure.

You will work across cloud environments, use modern containerized tech like Docker and Kubernetes, and collaborate with threat researchers and engineers to drive high-availability solutions.