Senior Developer, Vulnerability Scanner

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, Vulnerability Scanner to be part of making that happen.  

About the Role

This Senior Developer, Vulnerability Scanner will sit on our scanner team. You will be a part of the fast-paced and high-demand team responsible for looking after the ever-growing number of vulnerability scanners we have in the field. Notable challenges include managing and monitoring the scanner population at scale, keeping the scanners secure and performant at all times and optimizing software to get the most we can out of our hardware.

Location: This role is open to Remote-Canada & Hybrid-Waterloo, ON, CA.

Job Responsibilities

• Own the entire life cycle of the software from building, testing, deploying all the way through deprecation of old software components.

• Write well organized, testable, and high performing code.

• Improve the resiliency of our test infrastructure and introduce new tests where appropriate.

• Identify and implement optimizations that help us, or our scanners operate more efficiently.

• Implement bug-fixes and contribute to on-going product maintenance. 

• Collaborate with other team members and external stakeholders. 

• Write clear and concise documentation.  

• Support our customers with bug fixes and answers to technical support questions.

• Mentor and coach co-ops and new developers on the team.

Required Skills 

• At least 8 years of experience designing large scale systems in Go and/or Python.

• Experience with message passing and parallel design.

• Working knowledge of GitHub, Jenkins, and automated test tools. 

• Experience with cloud native development (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Understanding of CI/CD, Docker (containerization), and DevOps.

• Experience with secure network application design.

• Strong understanding of fundamental networking concepts and troubleshooting.

• Strong familiarity with Linux/Unix environments including troubleshooting and administration, and using common tools to identify problems at the system, hardware, and kernel level.

• Experience with Agile Development.

• Experience with Databases, and database schema design (specifically PostgreSQL or another enterprise quality DB)

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Experience with network appliances.

• Experience with test frameworks and automated testing.

• Experience with virtualization of computer hardware. 

• Experience with API design, pagination, and efficiency/scaling.

• Understanding of Message broker concepts (Kafka/RabbitMQ).

About Arctic Wolf

At Arctic Wolf we’re cultivating a collaborative and productive work environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and ideas to make our teams even stronger as we grow globally. We’ve been named a Great Place to Work - Canada (2021-2024), and on the list of Best Workplaces in Technology (2024) in Canada. As well as on Fortune’s Best Place to Work for Millennials (2023) and Top Technology Workplace (2024) lists.

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 time off, paid volunteer days, and paid parental leave

• Enhanced maternity leave and fertility support services

• RRSP matching program

• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health services

• Training and career development programs

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 [email protected]. 

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.