Staff Developer-Frontend
Job Summary
At Arctic Wolf you wont just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve youll 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. Were proud to be recognized by Forbes CNBC Fortune CRN Gartner Peer Insights and IDC MarketScape but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform.
Position Overview and Objective
Our Frontend Platform team owns the shared frontend foundation component library build tooling and CI/CD infrastructure. What we build is used broadly enough that good decisions scale well and poor ones surface quickly.
Were looking for a Staff Software Developer who is energized by that kind of leverage. Youll spend as much time understanding why something is broken as fixing it writing the governance and tooling that prevents the next problem and being a trusted technical partner to the feature teams who depend on what we build.
This is a senior technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in React TypeScript and solid experience with services along with a strong focus on engineering excellence performance scalability and developer experience. Youll lead platform improvement initiatives mentor engineers on frontend best practices and architectural patterns and help drive operational excellence across shared frontend systems.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop scalable high-performance frontend architectures usingReact and TypeScript
Investigate systemic issues across the platform audit unfamiliar codebases identify root causes and produce written findings and architectural recommendations before proposing solutions
Build and maintain-based backend servicessupporting frontend platforms (e.g. BFFs APIs tooling services)
Championdeveloper experience (DX) and frontend standardsthrough automation documentation and tooling
Guide developers through code reviews design discussions and pairing. Mentor developers on frontend architecture platform standards testing strategies and engineering best practices
Treat the platform as a product. Identify friction in the development lifecycle and lead platform improvement initiatives that enhance usability adoption reliability and developer productivity.
Optimize application performance bundle size and runtime efficiency
Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies and engineering practices
Act as a technical partner to feature teams balancing platform stability and backward compatibility with the ability to evolve APIs and patterns over time
Contribute to Agile development processes including sprint planning retrospectives and iterative delivery practices
Contribute to long-term technical strategy through written proposals and cross-team architecture conversations
Required Qualifications
9 yearsof software development experience
Strong expertise inTypeScriptandReact(hooks state management performance)
Monorepo experienceat scale (we use Nx familiarity with task graphs and affected builds is a plus)
Server-state management and client-side routingin a large React application
Hands-on experience withand backend service development
Experience withtesting infrastructure: unit component and E2E (Vitest Playwright or equivalents)
Demonstrated ability to independently investigate a complex codebase and produce clear written architectural assessments not just code fixes
Ability to balance ideal architecture with real-world constraints adapt quickly to changing priorities and effectively context-switch across multiple initiatives when urgent platform needs arise
Preferred Qualifications
Experience on a dedicatedFrontend Platform or Infrastructure Team
Familiarity with:
Design systemsand component libraries (Storybook etc.)
Monorepos(Nx Turborepo Lerna)
CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or similar)
TanStack Query and Router
Deep understanding of:
Web performance optimization
Cross-browser compatibility
Accessibility (a11y) best practices
Experience buildingdeveloper tools(CLI tools plugins linters codemods)
Experience withfrontend build tools and bundlers(Webpack Vite Rollup etc.)
Strong knowledge ofAPI integration patterns(REST GraphQL)
Knowledge ofSSR/SSGframeworks( or similar)
Exposure tomicro-frontend architectures
Cloud experience (Azure AWS or GCP)
Strong understanding ofobservability and monitoring tools
About You
Youre a proactive and detail-oriented professional with a quality-first mindset and a passion for delivering reliable secure software to customers in dynamic multi-platform environments. Your DevOps/SRE experience enables you to bridge development testing deployment and operations seamlessly. Your analytical skills enable you to resolve complex issues efficiently across diverse platforms and cloud environments while your collaborative mindset ensures effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams. You are committed to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards of quality security documentation and process improvement in all projects you undertake
We value a culture of sharing so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus some of these ideas do make it into our products.
On-Camera Policy
To support a fair transparent and engaging interview experience candidates interviewing remotely are expected to be on camera during all video interviews. Being on camera fosters authentic connection improves communication and allows for full engagement from both candidates and interviewers. We understand that technical bandwidth or location-related challenges may occasionally prevent video use. If this applies candidates are required to notify us in advance so we can explore appropriate accommodations.
About Arctic Wolf
At Arctic Wolf we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that thrives on diversity of thought background and culture. This is reflected in our multiple awards including Top Workplace USA (2021-2025) Best Places to Work USA (2021-2025) Great Place to Work Canada (2021-2024) Great Place to Work UK (2024-2026) and Kununu Top Company Germany (2024-2026). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction with over 10000 customers worldwide and more than 2000 channel partners globally. As we continue to expand globally and enhance our technology Arctic Wolf remains the most trusted name in the industry.
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 thatby protecting peoples 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 Unityhere.
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.
AllIndiawolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages including:
Equity for all employees
Flexible annual leave paid holidays and volunteer days
Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical insurance for you and your family life insurance (3x compensation) and personal accident insurance.
Fertility support and paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program
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 experience as accessible as possible and provideaccommodationsas required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodation by emailing ourHiring Pageto learn more about our application process.
Security Requirements
Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWNs 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
Arctic Wolf delivers dynamic, 24x7 AI-driven cybersecurity protection tailored to the needs of your organization. Ready to boost your cyber resilience?