Principal Information Security Engineer

At Arctic Wolf, youwon’tjust watch the cybersecurity industry evolve –you’llhelp 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’reproud to be recognized by Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, CRN, Bartner Peer Insight sand IDCMarket

Scape– but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform.

Ifyou’relooking for meaningful work, smartteammatesand the chance to make a real impact in a high-growth company that’sredefining security operations,Arctic Wolf is the right place for you!

Our mission is simple:
End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Principal Information Security Engineer to be part of making that happen.

The Principal Information Security Engineer is the most senior individual contributor within Security Engineering and serves as a technical leader across Arctic Wolf’s security landscape. This role is responsible for defining technical strategy, solving the organization’s most complex security challenges, and building security capabilities that scale across the enterprise.

This individual combines deep expertise across security architecture, software engineering, identity, cloud security, automation, AI, and enterprise security disciplines to drive meaningful security outcomes. While design and consultation are important aspects of the role, this position is fundamentally an engineering role. The Principal Information Security Engineer is expected to remain hands‑on, contributing code, building solutions, creating automation, and helping teams operationalize security at scale.

The successful candidate will influence security strategy across enterprise, corporate, and product environments while serving as a trusted technical advisor to executives, engineering leaders, architects, and security practitioners. They will establish technical direction, define security patterns and standards, and help Arctic Wolf adopt emerging technologies safely and effectively.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Establish long‑term technical direction for Security Engineering.
• Serve as the organization’s senior‑most security engineering subject matter expert.
• Influence security strategy, roadmaps, standards, and technology decisions across the enterprise.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and executive leadership to align security capabilities with business objectives.
• Identify emerging technologies, threats, and industry trends that should shape future security investments.

Engineering & Solution Development

• Design, build, and implement security capabilities that improve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Arctic Wolf systems and data.
• Develop automation, integrations, tooling, and platforms that reduce operational burden and increase security effectiveness.
• Lead the development of reusable security services, frameworks, APIs, and engineering patterns.
• Produce prototypes and proof‑of‑concepts that validate new security capabilities and technologies.
• Drive engineering‑first solutions that favor automation and scalability over manual processes.

Security Architecture & Governance

• Lead architecture reviews and security design assessments across enterprise, corporate, and product environments.
• Establish security reference architectures, technical standards, and engineering guardrails.
• Evaluate technology designs to ensure appropriate security controls, resiliency, and risk management.
• Serve as a key decision maker for security technology evaluations, approvals, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance for complex security and business decisions involving…