Senior Developer-1 R&D Infrastructure

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.  

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. 

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 (2021-2024), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – UK (2024), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 7,000 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.  

About the Role 

Our highly talented Infrastructure teams continue to advance our container orchestration journey, and are looking for a candidate to join the Platform Engineering team. You will advise and support teams in converting and upgrading both internal and external-facing services, maintain the container orchestration infrastructure, and advocate for new Kubernetes and EKS features. These efforts are key to improving scalability, reliability and developer experience: all things we strive to achieve. 

Many of our services today are already containerized, but require insightful planning, tooling and design to successfully work at scale and take advantage of Kubernetes features - our preferred orchestration platform. A developer in this role will also write microservices that run in a maintenance or management plane, providing better overall workload observability to reduce incident frequency and severity. 

Some of the things you might work on include: 

Enhancing our approach for Kubernetes (EKS) cluster provisioning, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning, allowing service owners to achieve zero or low downtime for their workloads with minimal effort 

Developing tools to detect public cloud provider service limits and automate corrective measures 

For services and scenarios where fully automated remediation is not desired or feasible, writing microservices to extract actionable data from production systems - which allows reliability engineering team or service owners to achieve better understanding and faster resolution 

Reviewing how R&D teams provision and use other managed cloud resources (load balancers, storage, databases, event streaming), enabling them to define and control these resources as code alongside their service itself 

Researching new container technologies and Kubernetes APIs, running trials and proof-of-concept work that enhance capabilities, reduce cost, or are required to stay up to date 

Continuously improving the security of the platform itself, including working across teams to provide least-privilege access with IAM policies, security groups and other access control mechanisms 

Desired Skills and Experience 

5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, with strong expertise in Amazon EKS 

Have designed, built, run and maintained distributed, scalable systems with Kubernetes 

Uses and promotes for infrastructure-as-code in public cloud (e.g. Helm, CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK) 

Software development background in Python, Go or other high-level languages; writes maintainable code, with appropriate test coverage, that meets or exceeds industry security standards 

Ability to collaborate closely with platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver self-service infrastructure capabilities 

Advocates best practices in containerized services, and backs it up with concrete examples and tooling to achieve them  

Experience operating highly available, fault-tolerant systems in multi-account or multi-environment cloud setups 

Hands-on experience with observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) to monitor and troubleshoot distributed systems 

Strong knowledge of Linux systems, container runtimes, and operating system fundamentals 

Excellent written and oral communication 

Additional Skills and Technologies 

Experience in the following areas will also be an asset: 

Strong experience with core AWS technologies including EC2, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch and IAM 

Operated and administered Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, or other Linux variants 

Observability, monitoring, metrics and alerting (eg: Prometheus, Thanos, Alert Manager, Grafana) 

Cloud and Kubernetes security, including service mesh and policy-based controls 

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.   

All 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  

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 employee 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 accommodations by emailing recruiting@arcticwolf.com.   

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. 

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 laws and regulations.