Lead Developer Endpoint

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.

As a Lead Test Automation & CI/CD Engineer within Arctic Wolf you will be responsible for ensuring the quality reliability and seamless delivery of our Endpoint software across diverse platforms and environments. You will blend SDET expertise with DevOps/SRE practices to automate testing orchestrate deployments and maintain production systems - from planning and coordination to deployment and support - ensuring every release is robust and minimally disruptive. You will collaborate closely with our Engineering Product and Customer Success teams to guarantee release readiness and high-quality delivery with a heavy focus on automation reliability and quality assurance.

Required Qualifications

• 9 years of professional experience as an SRE Release Engineer or equivalent role
• 2 years of professional experience as a lead engineer/developer
• Strong background in quality engineering with an SDET mindset and familiarity with testing methodologies
• Demonstrable working knowledge and experience with Python
• Experience designing building maintaining and improving Python-based automation and testing frameworks (e.g. PyTest)
• Experience preparing reviewing and executing deployment plans runbooks MOPs and rollback procedures for complex production environments
• Hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure) and virtualization technologies (e.g. vSphere)
• Proficiency across multiple operating systems and platforms (Windows Linux macOS; Intel ARM)
• Experience leading an Agile/Scrum team
• Experience owning or orchestrating large-scale or enterprise software releases
• Expertise in release automation and orchestration frameworks/tools
• Experience with SQL or other data query/visualization tooling
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and best practices (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions)
• Experience with code quality tooling and best practices (e.g. SonarQube)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC; e.g. Ansible Terraform) and configuration management tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience debugging and deciphering network and/or endpoint device logs
• Experience deploying agent-based software
• Previous experience on or adjacent to a team of SDETs
• Experience with monitoring observability and alerting platforms (e.g. Grafana/Prometheus)

About the Role

Youll be working as a Staff Engineer on our Endpoint Security - Production Engineering team responsible for ensuring quality through automation executing deployments and maintaining the reliability of Arctic Wolfs endpoint software across multiple platforms and cloud environments.

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities will be:

• Act as the technical lead of the team focused on designing architecting and overseeing all the teams projects
• Plan coordinate and execute software releases across customer environments and geographies
• Design and implement automated testing deployment and rollback strategies
• Build and maintain quality gates and validation frameworks to ensure release readiness
• Collaborate with software developers QA customer support and product teams to ensure high-quality delivery
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues across diverse platforms (Windows Linux macOS; Intel ARM) and assist with root cause analysis
• Manage and optimize infrastructure across AWS Azure and vSphere environments
• Build runbooks and documentation for internal teams and end users
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements during deployments
• Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes leveraging automation to ensure efficiency reliability and quality
• Evaluate and implement new relevant technologies and tools
• Mentor junior engineers
• Assist and contribute to intra/inter-team planning

We value a culture of sharing so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly meetings. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus some of these ideas do make it into our products.

About You

Youre a proactive and detail-oriented professional with a quality-first mindset and a passion for delivering reliable secure software to customers in dynamic multi-platform environments. Your SDET background combined with DevOps/SRE experience enables you to bridge testing deployment and operations seamlessly. Your analytical skills enable you to resolve complex issues efficiently across diverse platforms and cloud environments while your collaborative mindset ensures effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams. You are committed to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards of quality security documentation and process improvement in all projects you undertake.

On-Camera Policy
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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 (2021-2024) 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 inclusion and 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 time off and paid volunteer days
• RRSP and 401k match
• Training and career development programs
• Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical mental health dental disability life and AD&D and value-added services
• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services
• 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

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 U.S. export control laws and regulations.