Senior Developer-Automated Detection

About the job

At Arctic Wolf were not just navigating the cybersecurity landscape - were redefining it. Our global team of dedicated Pack members is driving innovation and setting new industry standards every day. Our impact speaks for itself: weve earned recognition on theForbes Cloud 100 CNBC Disruptor 50 Fortune Future 50 and Fortune Cyber 60lists and we recently took home the2024 CRN Products of the Yearaward. Were 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 CRNs Products of the Year award in the inaugural Security Operations Platform category. Join a company thats not only leading but also shaping the future of security operations.

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. Were looking for a Senior DeveloperAutomated Detection to be part of making that happen.

About the Role

The Senior Developer - Detection Automation will partner with high-powered security and detection research teams to create automated detection pipelines for our suite of cybersecurity products and services. They will partner with researchers as a data engineer familiar with SQL Spark and either/both of Databricks or Athena/Iceberg/Trino to write and optimize ETL/ELT jobs to ingest raw data from a variety of sources refine that data and optimize/tune those datasets into production. They should be comfortable with relational- and non-relational databases like SQL and PostgreSQL big data systems such as Spark and cloud-deployments of software and ETL jobs in AWS. Workflow orchestrators such as Airflow will also be used. Knowledge of cybersecurity and detection engineering are a bonus.

Arctic Wolf Labs is the research-focused division at Arctic Wolf focused on advancing innovation in the field of security operations. The mission of Arctic Wolf Labs is to develop cutting-edge technology and tools that are designed to enhance the companys core mission to end cyber risk while also bringing comprehensive security intelligence to Arctic Wolfs customer base and the security community-at-large. Leveraging the more than two trillion security events the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud ingests parses enriches and analyzes each week Arctic Wolf Labs is responsible for performing threat research on new and emerging adversaries developing advanced threat detection models and driving improvement in the speed scale and detection abilities of Arctic Wolfs solution offerings. The Arctic Wolf Labs team comprises security and threat intelligence researchers data scientists security development engineers with deep domain knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI) security R&D as well as advanced threat offensive and defensive methods and technologies. Security Research Services Development partners with these groups to understand requirements design & implement scalable fault-tolerant solutions and build the next generation of security capabilities for Arctic Wolf.

Responsibilities Include:

Execute on R&D of distributed highly scalable and fault-tolerant microservices

Use test-driven development techniques to develop beautiful efficient and secure code

Create and scalehigh-performanceservicesthat bring new capabilities to Arctic Wolfs data science organizations

Identify problems proactively and propose novel solutions to solve them

Continuously learn and expand your technical horizons

WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO

Will collaborate closely with our data science and detection research teams across different cybersecurity domains to define research detection infrastructure requirements and build critical data services.

Has proficiency in big data technologies such as Apache Spark Databricks Kafka SQL Terraform.

Has experience interacting with and author workflows such as prompts or tools for LLMs in AWS Bedrock

Has extensive experience with data pipelines tools (Flink Spark or Ray) and orchestration tools such as Airflow Dagster or Step Functions

Has knowledge of Data Lake technologies data storage formats (Parquet ORC Avro) and query engines (Athena Presto Dremio) and associated concepts for building optimized solutions at scale

Maintains an expert level in one of the following programming languages or similar- Python Java Go Scala

Is an expert in implementing data streaming and event-based data solutions (Kafka Kinesis SQS/SNS or the like)

Has experience deploying software with CI / CD tools including Jenkins Harness Terraform etc.

Has hands-on experience implementing data pipeline infrastructure for data ingestion and transformation near real-time availability of data for applications and ETL pipelines.

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 7000 customers worldwide and more than 2000 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 inclusionand truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization. And we appreciate thatby protecting peoples 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 entireemployeeexperience as accessible as possible and provideaccommodationsas 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

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Security Requirements

Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWNs 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.