Software Engineer, Huntress

• 4+ years of experience developing complex software products
• 2+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
• Experience reviewing code, problem-solving, and technical troubleshooting
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience gained through work experience

Desirable

• Reports to: Engineering Manager
• The Huntress team is looking for an innovative and highly motivated Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) team
• In this role, you’ll build solutions to monitor logins, behaviors, and access patterns at scale to automatically detect and stop hackers in their tracks
• You will work closely with senior engineers, security researchers, designers, and market experts to develop market-defining solutions for the identity protection space
• ITDR is the new frontier of security, with the vast majority of breaches in 2024 beginning with identity compromise
• 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 SOC team 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
• Continuously improve solution quality through code reviews, manual and automated testing, and suggesting team processes to make us more efficient
• Build internal tooling for our SOC team to hunt for and quickly mitigate any intrusions