Principal Developer & Exposure Management Architect

Arctic Wolf; United States; Hybrid; USD 104,009 - 204,036; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all employees

Flexible time off

RRSP and 401k match

Training and career development

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Arctic Wolf is seeking a Principal Developer – Exposure Management to guide technical direction across the Exposure Management product area. You’ll contribute to architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and shape how we scale the platform in pursuit of End Cyber Risk.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own code quality, and deliver strategic technical recommendations with 1–3 year impact horizons. This is a highly influential, hybrid role across North America.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer on SaaS platforms.
• Designed and operated multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and multi-cloud environments (AWS and GCP).
• Strong experience with two or more of: Rust, Go, Python.
• Grounded in engineering principles – clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS, YAGNI.
• Demonstrated track record of elevating engineering teams and practices.
• Contribute strategic technical recommendations with 1–3 year impact horizons.

Responsibilities

• Help guide technical direction and contribute to platform architectural strategy across multiple teams within the Exposure Management product area.
• Participate in system design decisions with strong technology recommendations.
• Review detailed designs and provide architectural feedback that accelerates delivery.
• Help drive alignment on cross-team technical decisions and promote consistency across platform services.
• Champion engineering principles – clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS – and hold the bar on code quality.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration within empowered product teams, balancing value, usability, feasibility.
• Elevate engineers through pairing, code review, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to multi-year technology planning and roadmap discussions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and serve as a technical escalation point during incidents.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS platforms

Rust, Go, Python

Mentoring engineers

Architectural decisions

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Arctic Wolf is seeking a Principal Developer – Exposure Management to guide technical direction across the Exposure Management product area. You’ll contribute to architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and shape how we scale the platform in pursuit of End Cyber Risk.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own code quality, and deliver strategic technical recommendations with 1–3 year impact horizons. This is a highly influential, hybrid role across North America.