Senior Staff Developer

Arctic Wolf; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all employees

Private benefits plan

Fertility support

Parental leave

Job summary

Arctic Wolf is seeking a Senior Staff Developer to drive modernization of our Aurora Endpoint Security cloud platform. You will lead architecture decisions, containerize services, and shape scalable, secure cloud-native solutions across teams.

With 13+ years in software engineering, you will own large-scale systems, partner with product leaders, and advance observability, CI/CD, and platform engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of software engineering experience in distributed cloud environments.
• Experience designing, developing, and operating microservices architectures.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver scalable cloud-native applications.
• Own architecture decisions across apps and infrastructure.
• Lead modernization of monoliths to cloud-native/services.
• Establish engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Improve reliability via observability, monitoring, and SRE practices.
• Implement secure-by-design architectures and zero-trust principles.
• Collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Lead incident reviews and resiliency initiatives.
• Evaluate new technologies to boost scalability and security.

Skills

Java

Go

.Net

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

React

Terraform

CI/CD

Tools

GItOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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 Senior Staff Developer to be part of making this/that happen.

Position Overview and Objective

The Senior Staff Developer will contribute to our Aurora Endpoint Security cloud platform, by leading initiatives to modernize & scale the platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deliver highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native applications powering mission-critical business capabilities.
• Own architecture decisions across applications and infrastructure.
• Lead large-scale modernization initiatives, transforming monolithic systems into cloud-native, containerized, and service-oriented architectures.
• Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practice that improve quality, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Drive system reliability through observability solutions, including metrics, logging, tracing, capacity planning, SRE practices, and proactive monitoring.
• Define and implement secure-by-design architectures, incorporating identity management, encryption, secrets management, threat modeling, compliance controls, and zero-trust principles.
• Partner closely with product leaders, architects, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead critical production incident reviews, root-cause analysis, resiliency improvements, and operational readiness programs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovations that improve scalability, productivity, reliability, security and operational efficiency.

Experience & Requirements

• 13+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging equally with engineers, architects, executives, and business leaders.
• Significant hands‑on experience designing and developing microservices using Java/Go/.Net, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services, including compute, networking, Caching, storage, messaging, container orchestration, observability, and security services.
• Advanced knowledge of databases, particularly SQL Server, DynamoDB and PostgreSQL, including high-availability architectures, performance tuning, query optimization, partitioning, and replication strategies.
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, along with CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and platform engineering best practices.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency models, concurrency, caching, and asynchronous processing using Kafka.
• Good frontend engineering experience using React.

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.

About Arctic Wolf

At 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 (2021-2025), Best Places to Work - USA (2021-2025), Great Place to Work - Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work - UK (2024-2026), and Kununu Top Company - Germany (2024-2026). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 10,000 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.

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.

Benefits

All India wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:

• Equity for all employees
• Flexible annual leave, paid holidays and volunteer days
• Training and career development programs
• Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical insurance for you and your family, life insurance (3x compensation), and personal accident insurance.
• Fertility support and paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer

Arctic 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 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 accommodation by emailing [e-mail].

Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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 recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may make a request by calling the Arctic Wolf general contact number at 1-888-272-8429 and asking to speak to Recruiting, or by emailing [e-mail].

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.