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.
What You’ll Do:
The Huntress team is looking for an innovative, highly motivated, and
self-driven Principal Software Engineer to join our Huntress EDR team.
Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is a cybersecurity service
that monitors and analyzes endpoint activity to detect and respond to
threats in real-time.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering server-side
features of the EDR product, working in conjunction with EDR agent
engineers to design, develop, and release features at scale for the
Huntress EDR offering. You will focus on creating the technical vision
for new and exciting features from the EDR roadmap. You’ll work
alongside an innovative and diverse team of problem solvers who exhibit
high energy, deep technical skills, and a drive to get things done. As a
Principal Software Engineer, you will work closely with the platform
and architecture teams to design and build the type of solutions
Huntress has become known for, which are solutions that not only solve
problems but drastically improve industry standards, workflows, and user
experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Own delivery, product quality, and up-time of complex mission-critical features/systems
- Impact objectives and initiatives that span across departments
- Lead technical decisions with company-wide impact
- Evolve our collective understanding of our technical domain
- Define long-term strategic technical goals and initiatives
- Effectively communicate strategic technical vision and set an example for the organization
- Work with the team engineering manager to make sure the team is meeting technical expectations and upholding strategy
- Communicate critical trade-offs on technical approaches across the platform
- Collaborate closely with the team engineering manager, product
manager, security research, platform, and architect on strategic
initiatives and technical designs
- Develop and enforce best practices for team and department
- Engage with customers as necessary
- Contribute to and improve the organization's test frameworks and approaches
- Develop a deep cross-product understanding of features and architecture
- Own and drive performance impact of team/department solutions and the overall platform suite
- Lead and develop high-quality, scalable software, software designs, and architecture and set standards for team excellence
- Own improving visibility into software systems at scale, including monitoring and alerting
- Focus on the entire life cycle of the system, including evolution, configuration, and risk management
- Ensure code quality and test code coverage through code reviews, test plan reviews, and security reviews
- Lead the team in providing accurate estimates and taking ownership over the timely completion of work
- Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering an environment that
values professional development and promotes collaboration and
engagement
- Actively engage with the team and lead by being a positive role model
What You Bring To The Team:
- 15+ years of experience developing complex software products
- 8+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
- 8+ years scaling Postgres databases
- A BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience gained through work
- Experience in Agile or Scrum environment
- Experience with JavaScript and CSS
- Experience working with RPC
- Experience reviewing code, problem-solving, and technical troubleshooting
- Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure
- A deep understanding of ActiveRecord (Rails)
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to grasp new tools and technologies quickly
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize and execute multiple tasks at a time in a fast-paced environment, often operating independently
- Ability to distill complex technical topics so that they can be shared and understood by a non-technical audience meaningfully
- Ability to work cross-functionally between multiple teams
- Passion for technology and strong motivation and responsibility for high-quality software features
- Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with product,
development teams, leadership, senior management, and internal and
external stakeholders
Helpful experience, but not required
- Experience with AWS Cloud Environments
- Experience with Stimulus, Turbo, and/or Hotwire (or similar frameworks)
- Experience working in a Ruby on Rails monolith
- A passion for building platform capabilities
- Eagerness to work with Tailwind CSS, Tailwind UI & Flowbite
- Experience with data-led product design
What We Offer:
- 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 small businesses.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this
application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the
employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
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