Staff Software Engineer, Huntress
EDR Agent, Go
$200-220k
Plus equity
Managed cyber security platform
Open for applications
Managed cyber security platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$200-220k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shatter the barriers to enterprise-level security.
Role
Who you are
- Cybersecurity experience or a willingness to learn
- 5+ years of hands-on experience writing idiomatic, concurrent, well-tested, and tuned for performance production Go code
- A strong grasp of OS internals, memory management, file systems, process lifecycles, and the user/kernel boundary
- Real depth in at least one major OS ecosystem (Windows internals, macOS/Darwin, or Linux) and a track record of ramping quickly on unfamiliar OS internals and APIs
- Proven track record of developing software for distributed systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
- Experience using AI coding agents to accelerate development
- Experience or familiarity with EDR or EPP systems is a plus
- Ability to coach or mentor junior engineers, helping them grow and excel in their roles
What the job involves
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
- The Huntress team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for our endpoint agents that run on every protected host and feed threat-hunting signals back to our platform
- Today our agents run on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is a small, fast-moving product team, so your leverage comes as much from the patterns you set and the engineers you level up as from the code you write yourself
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance agents using Go
- Apply a strong understanding of operating systems: processes, memory, file systems, syscalls, the user/kernel boundary to extract telemetry and manage state efficiently, and be able to pick up new OS-specific paradigms as we expand
- Integrate our endpoint application with our backend SaaS web application’s REST APIs to manage state and provide information used for threat hunting, with particular attention to low resource usage on endpoints
- Build and maintain the concurrent, performance-sensitive core of the endpoint agent, and set the standard for what good Go looks like here
- Use AI tools to move faster and define how the team does so responsibly, what gets AI-assisted, how AI-generated code is reviewed and validated, and where the line sits, given that the endpoint agent runs with high privilege on customer machines and ships to millions of hosts
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align development efforts with company goals
- Mentor and coach junior engineers, guiding best software development and cybersecurity practices
- Explain low-level OS behavior and architectural tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across Product, Threat Operations, and leadership
- Collaborate with DevOps to use our end-to-end testing framework to test our agent and its interactions with our web portal
Our take
In a world of increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats, many organizations lack the resources and expertise to defend themselves effectively. Huntress has stepped in to address this gap, delivering robust cybersecurity solutions to protect a wide range of businesses and institutions across the US business landscape.
The company offers a managed security platform, which third party resellers leverage to protect their clients from attacks. Launched in 2015, Huntress has grown well over the years, attracting plenty of investment and expanding its headcount into the hundreds.
More recently, Huntress has turned its eye to acquisitions and new product launches, as well as major international expansion. A considerable influx of funding will support these initiatives, as well as allow the company to maintain sales momentum by expanding its go-to-market efforts.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$150m
SERIES D
May 2023
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289.8m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote: We’ve been a remote team from day one – and we’ve got the tools, systems and processes to be successful outside of a corporate office or HQ.
- PTO & Other Leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave, along with vacation, sick time, bereavement leave, and floating holidays.
- Growth Opportunities: We’re committed to teammate development, both within and outside of Huntress – including education assistance programs like LifeLabs, hands-on training, coaching through BetterUp, and more.
- Stock Options: All full-time teammates receive stock options and benefit from the continued growth and success of the company.
- Digital Monthly Reimbursements: We offer a monthly digital reimbursement for your internet and phone – plus a new starter home office reimbursement.
- 401K Match: We offer a 5% contribution to your 401k – even if you’re not paying into it yourself.
- Health Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, pet insurance, and other benefits you’d expect from a company that cares about its team members.
Company HQ
Columbia, MD
Leadership
Kyle Hanslovan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Huntress in 2015, Kyle spent 9 years at the Air National Guard as a Cyber Warfare Operator.
Chris Bisnett
(Co-Founder & CTO)Chris is US Navy Veteran, serving for five years as a Vulnerability Analyst focused on the Department of Defense network. He then operated in a number of Senior Security Engineering roles after leaving the Navy.
John Ferrell
(Co-Founder)John spent 5 years as a Security Engineer and CNO Analyst over two spells at ManTech International, with 1 year as a Linux Systems Engineer at SPARTA in the interim. He was also a CNO Developer at StrategicIO before co-founding Huntress.
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