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Arctic Wolf

Posted 27 Aug 2026

Principal Engineer - Backend

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
27 Aug 2026

About the role

Responsibilities:

  • Set and drive the technical direction for the department, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Architect and design scalable software solutions that meet team and organizational needs.
  • Maintain deep technical knowledge of team technologies and their interactions, serving as the final voice on technical decisions.
  • Represent the technical needs of the team to other groups and stakeholders, advocating for necessary resources and support.
  • Support team members by providing hands-on implementation guidance for complex or error-prone coding areas.
  • Propose, review, and approve coding and pull request standards, mentoring others to support best practices.
  • Demonstrate and promote the adoption of standards such as test automation across the team.


Requirements:

  • You're an experienced software developer with 10 or more years of experience architecting and shipping production-quality software.
  • You enjoy solving complex technical challenges and setting a high bar for software quality and team collaboration.
  • You thrive in a leadership role, setting the technical vision for the team and driving architectural decisions that enable us to deliver secure, scalable solutions for real-world security problems.
  • Here are some of the core technologies we use and teach across our S2CX teams. You should have experience in the following areas: Go or Java (or other object-oriented languages), AWS (or Azure/Google Cloud), Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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