Staff Developer – R&D Infrastructure

Location: Bengaluru, India

About the Company

At Arctic Wolf, we're redefining the cybersecurity landscape. With our employee Pack members, spread out globally, committed to setting new industry standards. Our accomplishments speak for themselves, from our recognition in the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fortune Future 50, and Fortune Cyber 60 to winning the 2024 CRN Products of the Year award. We're proud to be named a Leader in the IDC Market Scape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Services and earning a Customers' Choice distinction from Gartner Peer Insights. Our Aurora Platform also received CRN's Products of the Year award in the inaugural Security Operations Platform category.

Join a company that's not only leading, but also shaping, the future of security operations. Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk.

About the Role

The Staff Developer – CI/CD is a senior individual contributor role responsible for technical leadership, solution delivery, and operational ownership of CI/CD platforms and services. This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and is accountable for end-to-end delivery, quality, and reliability of assigned initiatives while mentoring team members and influencing broader engineering practices. The role focuses on complex problem solving, cross-team collaboration, and growing technical capability, while ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business objectives.

In this role, you will design, implement, and support CI/CD systems that enable hundreds of developers to build, test, and deploy software rapidly, reliably, and securely, and in compliance with regulatory controls. You will work across multiple teams to improve developer experience, evolve build and deployment frameworks, and ensure infrastructure and pipelines remain efficient, observable, auditable and resilient.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of CI/CD initiatives across teams, from design and implementation through deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Lead complex technical initiatives independently, setting technical direction and producing high-level designs covering architectural, security, and operational requirements.
• Design, build, operate, and support scalable CI/CD platforms, build systems, and automated deployment pipelines across AWS and Azure.
• Standardize deployment patterns, release templates, and environment promotion models to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
• Design and enforce fully automated, repeatable, and auditable deployment pipelines aligned with governance, compliance, and change management requirements.
• Enable progressive delivery strategies and ensure applications are CD-ready, including safe rollbacks and backward compatibility.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for CI/CD quality, reliability, security, observability, and supply chain integrity.
• Own CI/CD production incident response, including on-call escalation, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and long-term remediation.
• Use DORA metrics and operational signals to identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and influence delivery through technical leadership, collaboration with Product and Platform teams, and evolution of internal developer platforms and tooling.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 9+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or build/release engineering.
• Advanced experience in CI/CD, DevOps, or platform engineering as a senior individual contributor.
• Strong software development and system design skills using Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
• Expertise in build automation tools such as Bazel, Make, Gradle, Maven.
• Proven experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions).
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Experience working in Linux-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and cloud environments (AWS, Azure).

Preferred/Additional Skills

• Experience with building or operating internal developer platforms like Backstage platform development and plugin integration.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry).
• Exposure to machine image creation (Packer).
• Knowledge of secure CI/CD practices and software supply chain risk management.
• Experience with .NET build and deployment automation.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Experience working across multiple technology stacks and adapting to new frameworks with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrated alignment of technical delivery with business and organizational objectives.

Who You Are

• You care deeply about developer productivity and platform reliability.
• You're passionate about automation, scalability, and reducing manual toil.
• You balance speed with risk awareness and compliance.
• You collaborate effectively across teams while thriving in independent ownership.
• You seek continuous improvement and tie your success to the success of your internal customers - the developers.

Why 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 (2021-2024), Best Places to Work – USA (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – Canada (2021-2024), Great Place to Work – UK (2024), and Kununu Top Company – Germany (2024). Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 7,000 customers worldwide and more than 2,000 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 that—by protecting people's 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.

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.