Staff Software Engineer, Huntress

• 10+ years of experience developing complex software products
• 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
• Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code
• Experience with relational databases, such as Postgres

Desirable

• Reports to: Engineering Manager
• The Huntress team is looking for an innovative and highly motivated Staff Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) team
• This is a new product which is generally available on July 1st and already has very strong engagement within our customer base. You will be instrumental in building and growing this product from its roots. You will be part of a growing product team that is strategically key to protecting the 99% from cyber attacks
• In this role, you will focus on creating the technical vision and implementing new and exciting features from the product roadmap
• You will work closely with a product manager, senior engineers, security researchers, designers, and market experts to develop market-defining solutions for the identity protection space. At Huntress, Staff Engineers are expected to be technical leaders, driving new ideas, building great software and mentoring more junior engineers
• We make full use of AI coding tools to enable you to accelerate your development. We do not cap token usage, however we expect our engineers to use AI, and all tools responsibly
• ISPM is a new frontier of security, with the vast majority of breaches in 2026 beginning with identity compromise. ISPM moves compromise prevention “further left”, ideally preventing more identities from being breached by encouraging better hygiene in everyday actions. In this role, you will build scalable solutions to emerging threats in a rapidly evolving landscape
• In many cases, you will work on problems nobody has solved before, with no existing template, so the ability to learn quickly and think outside the box is critical. You will work across the stack, building new UI one day, scalable data models and event ingestions the next, then wrapping up the week with automated detectors to alert customers and our Security Operations Center to suspicious activity
• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails
• Implement efficient data pipelines to extract relevant information from massive amounts of noise
• Collaborate with security researchers to understand hacking strategies and methods to combat them
• Be a technical thought leader for your team, providing architectural and design direction
• Continuously improve solution quality through code reviews, manual and automated testing
• Set standards for excellence and develop processes that make the team continuously more efficient
• Lead more junior engineers to deliver larger projects, including breaking down ambiguous problems into well-defined tasks, validating designs, and serving as POC for stakeholders
• Design the systems and architecture to support processing petabytes of data efficiently