Senior Manager, Detection Engineering & Purple Team

Reports to: Senior Director, Security Operations Center

Location: Remote 

Compensation Range: $195,000.00 to $235,000.00 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.

What You’ll Do: 

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated leader to own, build, and scale our Detection Engineering and Purple Team functions. This is a critical management role focused on leadership, strategy, and execution through your team. Your primary mission is to empower a world-class team of detection engineers to outthink adversaries, shape the future of our detection strategy, and scale our ability to protect hundreds of thousands of businesses.

As the Sr. Manager, you are the coach and advocate for your team. You will provide the strategic direction, mentorship, and resources your experts need to excel. You will be responsible for building our Purple Team capability from the ground up, fostering a culture of rigorous, data-driven validation, and ensuring a tight feedback loop between threat research and defensive controls. This role is about building the engine that powers our threat detection and response, and leading the people who make it run.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, Mentor, and Scale the Team: Manage and grow a high-performing, distributed team of detection engineers. You will be fully responsible for their career development, providing coaching, and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Own the Detection Strategy & Roadmap: Lead the development and execution of the overarching strategy for threat detection content across the Huntress platform. You will empower your team to define priorities based on threat intelligence, product needs, and emerging adversary tradecraft.
• Build and Lead the Purple Team Function: Design, build, and lead our purple team program. You will orchestrate exercises that simulate real-world adversary behavior to rigorously test and validate our detection and response capabilities, identify gaps, and drive measurable improvements.
• Champion Detection-as-Code at Scale: Guide the strategy for enhancing and scaling our detection-as-code pipeline. You will ensure the processes for creating, testing, and deploying high-quality, low-noise detections are robust, repeatable, and efficient.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the strategic liaison between your team and key partners in Threat Hunting, Malware Analysis, Product Engineering, and Product Marketing. You will excel at translating your team's technical wins into stories our customers understand and value.
• Define and Measure Success: Establish and own the key performance indicators (KPIs) for detection efficacy, including MITRE ATT&CK coverage, false positive/negative rates, and detection latency. You will use this data to steer your team's efforts and report on our security posture to leadership.
• Lead During Critical Incidents: Act as the key leader and strategist during high-impact security incidents or mass exploitation events. You will guide the team to respond quickly, calmly, and creatively, ensuring we deliver rapid detection when our partners need it most.

What You Bring To The Team:

• Proven Cybersecurity Leadership: 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity (e.g., detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response) with at least 3 years in a formal management role, directly leading a team of senior technical security practitioners.
• Deep Technical Competence: While this is not a hands-on keyboard role, you possess a deep understanding of adversary TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK