Principal Security Researcher, Huntress
EDR, Windows
$200-230k
+ Stock Options
Managed cyber security platform
Be an early applicant
Managed cyber security platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-230k
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shatter the barriers to enterprise-level security.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in Windows OS internals, components, APIs, and design
- Prior experience with Windows OS kernel coding and device drivers
- Experience testing EDRs, bypasses, and evasion techniques
- Comfortable with reverse engineering and using debuggers
- Proficiency in multiple programming/scripting languages, such as C/C++/C#, PowerShell, and Python
- Applies AI to improve research quality, speed, and outputs in day-to-day work
- Commitment to clear documentation of research findings
- Experience with MITRE ATT&CK matrix, SIGMA, Yara, and Elasticsearch/Kibana
What the job involves
- Reports to: Senior Director, Product Research
- The Huntress Product Research team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers
- As a Principal Product Researcher, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats
- Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools
- Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools is an additional way to differentiate yourself
- As you can imagine, success doesn’t happen in a vacuum
- An effective Product Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line
- This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities
- We defend over 5M endpoints for 225,000+ mid-sized and small-business customers, and that number continues to grow each month
- Given this market’s tighter budget, it’s not financially feasible to assign human analysts to each client
- The Security Operations team addresses this challenge head-on by building and scaling highly automated efficiencies—often lightly augmented by our SOC — that make intruders earn every inch of their access while maintaining affordability and healthy gross margins
- Identify innovative ways to detect Windows OS threats
- Develop cross-platform features that leverage telemetry from common OS subsystems such as file system, memory, process, and network activity
- Research and development of sensor capabilities to provide visibility and detection support for attack techniques across supported Windows OS versions
- Work collaboratively with internal engineering and detection teams to implement detection logic
- Identify and evaluate new telemetry opportunities
- Identify and address gaps in product coverage
- Respond to product escalations
- Perform False Positive and False Negative investigations
- Lead product research initiatives to develop and evaluate security product strategies and technologies
- Coordinate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions developed by Threat Operations teams
- Applies AI as a practical part of day-to-day product research work to improve the speed, quality, and impact of research outputs
- Uses AI to support information gathering, analysis, prototyping, and production of clear, decision-useful work products while maintaining accountability for the final output
- Builds and reuses lightweight prompts, templates, or workflows for recurring research tasks rather than relying on one-off use
- Develop internal and external technical documentation to educate customers and communicate research findings to adjacent teams about security risks and opportunities
- Mentor and teach technical expertise to advance the broader community
- Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, CFPs, CTFs, and blogs
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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