Principal Information Security Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $60k - $211k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Arctic Wolf

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

The cybersecurity industry has an effectiveness problem. Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge, and yet despite this constant innovation we continue to see high profile breaches in the headlines. All organizations know they need better security, but the dizzying array of options leave resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed. At Arctic Wolf, our mission is to End Cyber Risk through effective security operations. To achieve this, we believe that organizations must do three key things:

📋 Description

• 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 shaping future security investments • Design, build, and implement security capabilities protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data • Develop automation, integrations, tooling, and platforms to reduce operational burden and increase security effectiveness • Lead development of reusable security services, frameworks, APIs, and engineering patterns • Produce prototypes and proof-of-concepts validating new security capabilities and technologies • 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 for security controls, resiliency, and risk management • Drive security improvements across cloud, infrastructure, endpoint, application, network, and identity ecosystems • Develop security patterns supporting zero trust, identity-first security, cloud-native architectures, and modern software delivery • Guide authentication, authorization, privileged access, infrastructure security, and security monitoring capabilities • Enable safe adoption of AI technologies and define standards, guardrails, and reference patterns for AI systems, agents, LLMs, and emerging AI capabilities • Identify opportunities to leverage AI in security operations, engineering effectiveness, vulnerability management, and threat detection • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders across Security Engineering and partner organizations • Lead through influence rather than direct authority • Translate complex technical concepts into actionable recommendations for technical and executive audiences • Represent Arctic Wolf through conferences, industry engagement, publications, and community participation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience • 12+ years of progressive experience in security engineering, cloud security, security architecture, software engineering, identity and access management, or related disciplines • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale security initiatives and complex technical programs • Proven experience designing, building, and operating security solutions within cloud-native and SaaS environments • Strong software development experience using modern programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, or similar technologies • Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and organizational boundaries • CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, GIAC, CISM, or equivalent industry certifications • Deep experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP • Experience building internal security platforms, developer security tooling, automation frameworks, or cloud-native security services • Experience implementing and securing AI systems, large language models, agents, or AI-enabled business workflows • Public speaking, conference presentations, industry contributions, or demonstrated technical thought leadership • Experience mentoring highly senior engineers and technical leaders • Candidates interviewing remotely are expected to be on camera during all video interviews, with advance notification required for technical, bandwidth, or location-related accommodations • Background checks are required for this position • Duties must comply with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls

🏖️ 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 • Variable incentive compensation • New hire equity grants • Accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible