Senior Software Engineer

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $160,000 to $190,000 base plus bonus and equity

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

The Huntress team is looking for an innovative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) team. In this role, you'll build solutions to monitor logins, behaviors, and access patterns at scale to automatically detect and stop hackers in their tracks. You will work closely with senior engineers, security researchers, designers, and market experts to develop market-defining solutions for the identity protection space.

ITDR is the new frontier of security, with the vast majority of breaches in 2024 beginning with identity compromise. In this role, you will build scalable solutions to emerging threats in a rapidly evolving landscape. In many cases, you will work on problems nobody has solved before, with no existing template, so the ability to learn quickly and think outside the box is critical. You will work across the stack, building new UI one day, scalable data models and event ingestions the next, then wrapping up the week with automated detectors to alert customers and our SOC team to suspicious activity.

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails.
• Implement efficient data pipelines to extract relevant information from massive amounts of noise
• Collaborate with security researchers to understand hacking strategies and methods to combat them
• Continuously improve solution quality through code reviews, manual and automated testing
• Build internal tooling for our SOC team to hunt for and quickly mitigate any intrusions
• Set standards for excellence and develop processes that make the team continuously more efficient
• Lead junior engineers to deliver larger projects, including breaking down ambiguous problems into well-defined tasks, validating designs, and serving as POC for stakeholders
• Mentor junior engineers and help them grow

What You Bring To The Team:

• 8+ years of experience developing complex software products
• 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
• Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure
• Experience with databases such as Postgres
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience gained through work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry
• Experience working with external APIs (particularly REST, OData, authZ and authN flows)
• Familiarity with identity and resource security providers like m365, Okta, Google Workspaces, or similar
• Experience with other data storage technologies (Redis, ElasticSearch, Mongo, etc.)

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

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