Lead Developer – Full Stack, MDR Services

Ready to further your career in the fast-paced, exciting world of cyber security?

Arctic Wolf, with its unicorn valuation, is the leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry—cybersecurity. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience.

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Developer to be part of making this happen.  

About The Role

We are seeking a Lead Developer to join our Detect & Protect engineering organization that is the driving force behind our Managed Detection & Response(MDR) technologies which power security related telemetry collection and detection capabilities for our core Arctic Wolf Security Operations Service.

In this role, you will have senior level hands-on development responsibilities and be key contributor to the technical vision for the next generation MDR Services at Arctic Wolf. This includes the evolution of our on-premises endpoint agent & sensor technologies, all related SaaS backend platform services, and integration into the core Arctic Wolf Security Operations Platform.

At Arctic Wolf, being a Lead Software Developer is also very much a passionate change-agent leadership role. As such this role will require you to:

• Work directly with engineering, architecture, and product management leadership in a consultative role. Focused on big rock planning & challenges as we evolve the next generation of MDR security services

• Assume a “technical product owner” level role as needed to frame out technical requirements and execution across multiple scrum teams.

• Contribute to core development with a “player-coach mindset”. Providing broader technical guidance as needed through the design, implementation, testing, & deployment of our services.

Key Responsibilities
To succeed in this role, key responsibilities include:

• Embracing the technical leadership role and becoming a key contributor on the MDR Services Team!  Be empowered to make key decisions that drive the technical direction of the product or platform.

• Collaborating with product management, product owners, and leads to frame out the scope and sizing of the top-level engineering backlog that will enable us to deliver on the product roadmap.

• Driving software development execution in strategic areas. Formulating approaches, leading design, and guiding the team to deliver.

• Designing & developing with a relentless platform and framework mindset. Enabling a componentized and modular architecture across both the client side and backend platform.

• Solving challenging technical challenges as they arise. This could relate to re-architecture, security, parallel and distributed services, data architecture, scale-out design, or front end plaformization efforts.

• Being hands on and leading from the front. Willing to independently dive into code to resolve issues and perform proof of concept & rapid prototyping work.

• Contributing to the growth and mentorship of other team members as required.

• Defining & implementing unit/integration test automation in lock step with new feature development.

Minimum Requirements

An ideal candidate for this role should meet these minimum requirements:

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

• 7+ years relevant industry experience in software development

• 3+ years in hands-on technical leadership software development roles

• 3+ years of Agile software development experience

• Experience interfacing directly with R&D leadership and product management on requirements definition.

• Strong oral and written communication skills

Qualifications

An ideal candidate for this role should have many of these qualifications:

• Advanced to expert level experience in front end development. With direct experience in Angular, React, or similar languages.

• Solid backend experience in one or more of these languages: Golang, Python, Typescript or similar languages.

• Experience with cloud-native software application deployment architectures

• Fundamental understanding of scale-out architectures

• Experience integrating backend and client-side services.

• Experience creating RESTful APIs

• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases

• Experience delivering core features on scrum teams ranging in size of 5-10 people

• Experience providing technical oversight & guidance over multiple scrum teams on complex