
Principal Developer
Arctic Wolf
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $173,000 - $336,900 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Help guide technical direction and contribute to platform architectural strategy across multiple teams within the Exposure Management product area
- Participate in system design decisions with strong, well-reasoned technology recommendations
- Review detailed designs and provide architectural feedback that accelerates delivery
- Help drive alignment on cross-team technical decisions and promote consistency across platform services
- Champion engineering principles — clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS — and hold the bar on code quality
- Foster cross-functional collaboration within empowered product teams, working alongside product management and design to balance value, usability, and feasibility
- Elevate engineers around you — through pairing, code review, design discussions, and knowledge sharing — so that teams deliver better solutions and individuals grow in their careers
- Contribute to multi-year technology planning and roadmap discussions
- Participate in the on-call rotation and serve as a technical escalation point during incidents – helping teams diagnose and resolve complex platform issues
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with significant experience developing and operating SaaS platforms
- Have designed and operated multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and multi-cloud environments (AWS and GCP)
- Strong experience with two or more of: Rust, Go, Python
- Grounded in engineering principles — clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS, YAGNI — and apply them pragmatically
- Demonstrated track record of elevating engineering teams — whether through mentoring individuals, improving team practices, or raising the quality bar across multiple teams
- Contribute strategic technical recommendations with 1-3 year impact horizons
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SaaS developmentcloud-native platformsdistributed systemsmulti-cloud environmentsRustGoPythonclean designdomain-driven designcode quality
Soft Skills
technical directioncross-functional collaborationmentoringknowledge sharingdesign discussionsteam practices improvementcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingstrategic recommendations