Huntress

Senior Software Engineer

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1 month ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$165k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship agentic investigation components, including telemetry-querying tools, investigation logic, and structured evidence-backed outputs.
  • Translate SOC analyst investigation practices into agent behavior, including data gathering, reasoning, and explanations.
  • Develop LLM-powered features that summarize, correlate, and prioritize analyst tool output.
  • Build evaluation pipelines and measurements to assess whether the system improves or regresses.
  • Design secure, tenant-isolated systems that handle attacker-influenced data and can take actions in customer environments.
  • Write reliable, observable, cost-conscious production code and operate the systems after launch.
  • Collaborate with technical leads, SOC analysts, product researchers, and product managers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating production backend systems.
  • Experience building LLM applications involving tool use, structured output, prompt and context design, and evaluation; production agent experience is preferred.
  • Understanding of LLM failure modes and experience testing and debugging nondeterministic behavior.
  • Strong backend fundamentals involving APIs, background jobs and queues, concurrency, relational databases such as Postgres, and data stores such as Redis.
  • Strong skills in one or more backend languages and willingness to become fluent in Ruby on Rails.
  • Awareness of untrusted input, access control, and customer data isolation.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud environments.
  • Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with SOC operations, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, endpoint or identity telemetry, Microsoft 365 telemetry, attacker tradecraft, or evaluation datasets and pipelines is preferred.
  • Ruby on Rails experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work environment.
  • Paid time off including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Stock options for all full-time employees.
  • One-time $500 reimbursement for building or upgrading a home office.
  • Annual education and professional development assistance.
  • $75 USD/month digital reimbursement.
  • Access to BetterUp for coaching and personal and professional growth.

Tech Stack

AWSAzurePostgreSQLRedisRuby on Rails
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About Huntress

501-1,000 employees

Huntress builds a managed security platform for mid-market businesses and the MSPs that support them, offering endpoint protection, identity defense, SIEM, and security awareness training backed by a 24/7 human-led SOC. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, the company is privately held. Its platform secures more than 5 million endpoints and 14 million identities worldwide.

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