Northwave is a prominent European cybersecurity firm dedicated to safeguarding organizations against complex digital threats. With extensive expertise in both offensive and defensive security, as well as behavior monitoring, we assist our clients through managed security services and impactful consultancy. Our Security Operations Center (SOC) is pivotal to this mission, operating in a high-trust environment where technology and expertise converge.

The Role

As a Stack Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance the technical stack that powers our Security Operations Center. Your work will bridge engineering, automation, and security operations, ensuring our monitoring platform scales effectively and remains operationally robust.

You will create deployment pipelines for seamless onboarding of new customers and use cases, develop intelligent correlation and deduplication mechanisms to ensure analysts and clients receive only pertinent alerts and vulnerabilities, and maintain a centralized view of customer implementations for immediate insight into active configurations, use cases, and contact points. Your contributions will significantly influence the efficiency of our SOC and our ability to protect critical infrastructure across Europe.

Technology & Environment

You will operate in an environment where engineering quality and operational reliability are paramount:

• Python for automation, orchestration, and developing internal tools
• APIs for integrating and connecting security and monitoring systems
• GNU/Linux environments with strong command-line proficiency
• Networking fundamentals for designing, operating, and troubleshooting monitoring setups
• Security-by-design as a fundamental principle

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role
• Strong understanding of production systems and their improvement
• Ability to work closely with operations and translate SOC needs into technical solutions
• Ownership of built systems, ensuring they are understandable, maintainable, and secure
• Clear communication skills with analysts and engineers, focusing on pragmatic outcomes

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, paid on the 25th, with annual review and 8% holiday allowance
• Pension plan through Nationale Nederlanden, with a 50% contribution from Northwave, including partner pension
• 25 vacation days plus all Dutch national holidays
• Generous special leave for marriage, birth, bereavement, care, and parental leave
• Lease car based on salary scale (electric vehicles are welcome) or €0.23/km plus 50% of the lease budget as mobility allowance
• MacBook, phone, and accessories fully provided
• €200 net annual allowance for flexible and remote working
• Alleo budget for sports, wellness, and leisure activities of your choice
• Learning budget ranging from €700 to €1,200 per year, up to €4,500 for longer programs
• Referral bonus for bringing in new colleagues
• Hybrid working from a modern office in Utrecht
• Opportunities for personal growth through the Role Model and FeedForward cycle, focusing on your ambitions and development

At Northwave, this role is integral to real security operations. The systems you develop are actively used by SOC analysts and have a direct impact on incident detection, escalation, and resolution. You will not be building demos or side projects; instead, you will enhance a production SOC stack that protects real organizations. Decisions are made swiftly, technical input is valued, and improvements are actively implemented.

If you are interested in building systems that operate under real pressure, please reach out to Youri Roelofs at youri.roelofs@northwave-cybersecurity.com.