Senior Software Engineer - SIEM Platform (Ruby/Rails)

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 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ 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 seeking an innovative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) team. This person will join a team responsible for the development of features for the Huntress managed SIEM that is part of the Huntress Security Platform, which provides automated detection and human-powered threat hunting. You'll be working with Ruby on Rails to build scalable features that help our product grow as we continue to expand our security monitoring capabilities.

A SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system is a platform that collects, stores, and analyzes security data across an organization to detect threats and support investigations.

Huntress SIEM puts enterprise-grade security within reach for any team. Our managed SIEM is designed to deliver real security outcomes with less operational burden—helping teams detect threats faster without the cost, complexity, or staffing demands of legacy SIEM platforms. With 24/7 monitoring, expert management, and straightforward pricing, Huntress Managed SIEM makes advanced cybersecurity simple and accessible for organizations of all sizes.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical development of features for the Portal and delivering quality solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails

• Develop high-quality software, software designs and architecture

• Ensure code quality and test code through deliverables by testing own code and reviewing peers

• Take ownership of the timely completion of work, problem-solving and robust code

• Actively engage and contribute to the team and new innovations

• Ability to mentor or coach junior engineers

What You Bring To The Team:

• 8+ years of experience developing complex software products

• 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails

• Experience in Agile or Shape Up development methodologies

• Experience with databases such as Postgres or Clickhouse

• Experience working with external APIs

• Experience reviewing code, problem-solving solving and technical troubleshooting

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience gained through work experience

• Experience with Cloud Environments is preferred

• Experience building and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting) is preferred

• Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry is a nice to have

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 businesses of all sizes.

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 [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.

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