Principal Software Engineer - EDR (Ruby/Rails)

Reports to: Engineering Manager 

Location: Remote US 

Compensation: $200,000 to $230,000 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.

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