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Senior Software Developer - Real-Time Processing Platform

Job in Waterloo, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: Arctic Wolf
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-09
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer, DevOps, Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Waterloo

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, Bartner Peer Insights and IDC Market Scape – but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform.

If you’re looking for meaningful work, smart teammates and the chance to make a real impact in a high-growth company that’s redefining security operations, Arctic Wolf is the right place for you!

Our mission is simple:
End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Developer to be part of making that happen.

About the Role

In this role, you will help design, build, and enhance mission-critical services that support event enrichment, detection, correlation, stream processing, and pipeline orchestration at massive scale. Working at the edge of cloud-native system limits, you will tackle challenging distributed systems problems and contribute to the ongoing evolution of our platform as we continue to scale performance, flexibility, and detection effectiveness in an increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven threat landscape.

About the Team

Arctic Wolf’s R&D organization builds the systems that power our security operations platform. The Real-Time Processing Platform Team is responsible for many of the core systems used to enrich, process, correlate, and analyze data that drives detection and analytics across the platform.

You will be part of a team working on foundational systems that directly impact multiple areas of the platform, helping ensure reliability, data quality, and adaptability as requirements evolve.

The team works closely with threat researchers, detection engineers, and security experts across Arctic Wolf. We build the platforms, frameworks, and real-time processing engines that transform security expertise into scalable detections, enabling security experts to express increasingly sophisticated detection logic at scale while helping Arctic Wolf identify and respond to threats across trillions of events per day.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and enhance core components of Arctic Wolf’s real-time detection and event processing platform.

  • Build and evolve large-scale distributed systems that process and analyze trillions of events per day in near real-time.

  • Develop capabilities across event processing systems, detection frameworks, event correlation platforms, and stream-processing infrastructure.

  • Solve complex engineering challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency in cloud-native environments.

  • Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of next-generation platform capabilities.

  • Deliver high-quality, production-ready software and operate systems at massive scale.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve platform effectiveness and operational excellence.

  • Mentor and support other developers while fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

  • About You

  • 5-10+ years of professional software development experience.

  • Proven experience designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems at scale.

  • Strong background in real-time data processing architectures and high-throughput systems.

  • Experience delivering production systems end-to-end and driving complex technical initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.

  • Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.

  • Experience building and deploying services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

  • Proficiency with modern containerized technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Comfortable working within microservices architectures and CI/CD environments.

  • Experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark, Redpanda, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar event-streaming and messaging platforms is an asset.

  • Exposure to cybersecurity, observability, telemetry, or other data-intensive platforms is…

  • Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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