Staff Developer

At Arctic Wolf, you won’t just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve – you'll help lead the change. Our global Pack is made up of people who thrive on solving hard problems, moving fast, and building technology that protects organizations around the world. We’re proud to be recognized by Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, CRN, Gartner Peer Insights and IDC MarketScape – but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform.

Position Overview and Objective

Our Frontend Platform team owns the shared frontend foundation —  component library, build tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure. What we build is used broadly enough that good decisions scale well and poor ones surface quickly.

We're looking for a Staff Software Developer who is energized by that kind of leverage. You'll spend as much time understanding why something is broken as fixing it, writing the governance and tooling that prevents the next problem, and being a trusted technical partner to the feature teams who depend on what we build.

This is a senior technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and solid experience with Node.js services, along with a strong focus on engineering excellence, performance, scalability, and developer experience. You’ll lead platform improvement initiatives, mentor engineers on frontend best practices and architectural patterns, and help drive operational excellence across shared frontend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance frontend architectures using React and TypeScript

• Investigate systemic issues across the platform — audit unfamiliar codebases, identify root causes, and produce written findings and architectural recommendations before proposing solutions

• Build and maintain Node.js-based backend services supporting frontend platforms (e.g., BFFs, APIs, tooling services)

• Champion developer experience (DX) and frontend standards through automation, documentation, and tooling

• Guide developers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing. Mentor developers on frontend architecture, platform standards, testing strategies, and engineering best practices

• Treat the platform as a product. Identify friction in the development lifecycle and lead platform improvement initiatives that enhance usability, adoption, reliability, and developer productivity.

• Optimize application performance, bundle size, and runtime efficiency

• Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies and engineering practices

• Act as a technical partner to feature teams — balancing platform stability and backward compatibility with the ability to evolve APIs and patterns over time

• Contribute to Agile development processes including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery practices

• Contribute to long-term technical strategy through written proposals and cross-team architecture conversations

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of software development experience

• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React (hooks, state management, performance)

• Monorepo experience at scale (we use Nx — familiarity with task graphs and affected builds is a plus)

• Server-state management and client-side routing in a large React application

• Hands-on experience with Node.js and backend service development

• Experience with testing infrastructure: unit, component, and E2E (Vitest, Playwright, or equivalents)

• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate a complex codebase and produce clear written architectural assessments — not just code fixes

• Ability to balance ideal architecture with real-world constraints, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and effectively context-switch across multiple initiatives when urgent platform needs arise

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on a dedicated Frontend Platform or Infrastructure Team

• Familiarity with:

  • Design systems and component libraries (Storybook, etc.)

  • Monorepos (Nx, Turborepo, Lerna)

  • CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or similar)

  • TanStack Query and Router

• Deep understanding of:

  • Web performance optimization

  • Cross-browser compatibility

  • Accessibility (a11y) best practices

• Experience building developer tools (CLI tools, plugins, linters, codemods)

• Experience with frontend build tools and bundlers (Webpack, Vite, Rollup, etc.)

• Strong knowledge of API integration patterns (REST, GraphQL)

• Knowledge of SSR/SSG frameworks (Next.js or similar)

• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures

• Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tools

About You

You're 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 DevOps/SRE experience enables you to bridge development ,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

We value a culture of sharing, so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. 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.

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.

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 (2021-2025), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2025), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – UK (2024-2026), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024-2026). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 10,000 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.

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 India wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:  

• Equity for all employees 

• Flexible annual leave, paid holidays and volunteer days 

• 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 

• Employee Assistance Program

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 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 accommodation by emailing [email protected].  View our Hiring Page to learn more about our application process.

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 U.S. export control laws and regulations.