--- title: 'Principal Software Engineer, SOC Experience (Ruby/Rails) at Huntress' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-software-engineer-soc-experience-ruby-rails-huntress-united-states-of-vekkvy24avzv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Principal Software Engineer, SOC Experience (Ruby/Rails) at Huntress - **Company:** Huntress - **Location:** United States of, United States - **Posted:** 2026-06-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/7776835003 ## Job description Reports to: Director, Engineering Location: Remote US, Only Compensation: $215,000 to $240,000 base plus bonus and equity What We Do: Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection. Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 14M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other. What You’ll Do: The Huntress team seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join our Security Operations Center (SOC) Experience team. This team builds the systems that enable Huntress’ human-led SOC to operate at scale across investigative workflows, protecting our customers and our partners’ customers. The team’s work is about building the operational backbone for modern SOC execution: live triage and investigation experiences, workflow-driven automation, agentic investigation capabilities, remediation actions, and customer-facing reporting. The team also owns the steady stream of operational work as new detections, products, and capabilities come online across the Huntress platform.  Your contributions will help Huntress improve analyst efficiency, reduce toil, and drive customer outcomes as we scale [protection for the 99%](https://www.huntress.com/blog/scaling-to-protect-the-99). As a Principal Software Engineer at Huntress, you will provide technical leadership across this space by shaping architecture, decomposing ambiguous problems, and driving execution on the highest-leverage work. You will partner closely with engineering, product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable, and scalable systems. This includes empowering and enabling analyst investigation workflow, establishing behavior and safety rails for assisted and automated actions, improving observability and operational metrics, and raising the bar for reliability, maintainability, and delivery quality across the team. You’ll be expected to go deep in the code when needed, mentor senior engineers, and help the organization make pragmatic technical decisions that improve analyst effectiveness, partner outcomes, and Huntress’s long-term ability to innovate in the industry with confidence. We make full use of AI coding tools to enable you to accelerate your development. We don’t cap token usage. We expect you to use AI and all tools responsibly. Responsibilities: - Be the engineering face of the team and a trusted technical leader across the department. In cross-functional conversations with other engineering teams, product, or leadership, you represent the team's technical perspective clearly and credibly. You drive alignment on key decisions. You bring context back in both directions and protect the team from unclear scope. - Balance technical rigor with pragmatism. You push back when taking a shortcut creates real risk, but you also push back against over-engineering when the goal is discovery or prototyping. You have a bias for action and for getting frequent customer feedback. You make sound tradeoff decisions across requirements, reliability, performance, and cost. You can articulate the trade-offs either way to engineers and non-engineers alike. - Keep the team moving. You know the difference between decisions worth deliberating and decisions worth making quickly. You break down ambiguous requirements into work that can actually be executed, surface and clear blockers before they become delays, and hold the line between planning and shipping. - Shape the team as well as the code. You notice interpersonal friction and work with the engineering manager to address it. You give direct feedback, help engineers grow into solving harder problems, and model the kind of judgment and accountability you want the team to have. The team functions better because you're a part of it. - Raise the floor and the ceiling. The measure of your technical leadership is how the whole team performs, not just what you personally ship. That means code review with genuine intent, pairing on problems others are stuck on, and creating leverage through better patterns, tooling, and shared understanding. - Shape how we build AI into the product. Design and ship agentic investigation capabilities that help analysts triage and report faster, with the accuracy, safety, and auditability that is required in a security environment. - Prototype your way through hard problems. When the team hits something genuinely uncertain, you dig in first. Derisk, prove out the approach, then hand it off clearly. - Own the team's technical architecture and influence architectural direction across the system. Define long-term technical strategy, how the system evolves (e.g., data models, interfaces, contracts), and make the calls when the team is stuck between options. Your decisions create the foundation others build on for the foreseeable future. What You Bring To The Team: - 15+ years of experience developing complex software products - 8+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails - BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience - Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud environments - Experience with relational databases such as Postgres and with in-memory datastores such as Redis - Experience building production systems with LLMs, using agents, tools, evaluation, guardrails, and common, proven patterns - Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code - Deep backend expertise and a track record of scaling production systems - Solid frontend fundamentals (today’s stack is Hotwire, Turbo, and Stimulus), but able to reason outside that box - Proven ability to build and maintain large, highly parallel systems and design for concurrency, throughput, and correctness under load 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 accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. Huntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://trust.huntress.com/?itemUid=47f0a941-b86f-4864-a0d0-a224a34cfd57&source=click) for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights. #BI-Remote ## About Huntress ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Huntress provides a fully managed cybersecurity platform that protects small and medium-sized businesses from hackers via threat detection, endpoint security, and identity protection. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D) - **Headquarters**: Fulton, Maryland, USA (fully remote company) - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Kyle Hanslovan, John Ferrell, and Chris Bisnett (former NSA cyber operators) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Managed Detection and Response, Endpoint Security, Identity Threat Detection) - **Target customers**: B2B — primarily small and medium businesses (SMBs) and the managed service providers (MSPs) that support them. Also serves mid-market enterprises. - **Mission**: To break down the barriers to enterprise-level security and empower the businesses that the big names overlook. ## Products & Services - **Huntress Managed EDR**: Endpoint detection and response that monitors, hunts, and responds to threats across endpoints. - **Huntress Managed ITDR** (Identity Threat Detection and Response): Monitors and protects Microsoft 365 identities and environments from account takeover and identity-based attacks. - **Huntress Managed SIEM**: A fully managed security information and event management service that ingests and correlates log data for threat detection. - **Huntress Security Awareness Training**: Phishing simulations and security training to reduce human risk. - **Huntress Security Platform**: The unified platform that integrates all of the above, providing a single pane of glass for partners. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest round was $150M Series D in 2024). - **Key Metric**: $100M+ ARR (achieved in 2024). - **Total Funding**: Over $228M (Series A: $18M in 2022, Series C: $60M in 2023, Series D: $150M in 2024). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named directly in available data, but notable partnerships include Microsoft (Verified SMB Solution), Forte Racing, and the CISA Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). - **Growth Signals**: - Protects 4M+ endpoints and 8M+ identities worldwide. - Named to Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list. - Won Inc. Best Places to Work award (2024). - Named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers list (2025). - Achieved CMMC compliance and authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority. - Included in Verizon 2025 DBIR Report. - 630 total employees and growing. ## Competitive Advantages - **One Team advantage**: Technology and SOC (Security Operations Center) are inseparable — the platform is built for and operated by the same team, ensuring detection and response are tightly coupled. - **Founding team pedigree**: Founded by former NSA cyber operators, giving deep domain expertise in adversary tactics. - **SMB focus**: Specifically targets the underserved SMB market with enterprise-grade security at an affordable SaaS price. - **Fully managed**: Unlike many tools that require in-house security teams, Huntress provides a complete managed service, making it accessible to underresourced IT teams. - **Adversary-informed defense**: Uses real-world threat intelligence and continuous hunting to stay ahead of attackers. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to protect more SMBs, expanding the managed SIEM offering, deepening identity protection, and maintaining leadership in the MSP channel. - **Growth direction**: International expansion (currently hiring in US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia), continued product innovation, and strengthening partnerships with Microsoft and CISA. - **Public commitment**: Signed the CISA Secure By Design pledge, indicating a focus on security-by-design and transparency. ## Why Work Here - **100% Remote**: Huntress has been fully remote from day one, with a global team across US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia. They provide tools, systems, and processes to succeed outside a corporate office. - **Culture**: Values-driven with a focus on being a “force for good.” Core values are Own It, Elevate It, and Send It — emphasizing accountability, mutual support, and bold action. - **Benefits**: - 5% 401k contribution (even if you don’t contribute). - Stock options for all full-time teammates. - 12 weeks paid parental leave. - Monthly digital reimbursement for internet/phone. - Starter home office reimbursement. - Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and pet insurance. - Education assistance (LifeLabs, BetterUp coaching, hands-on training). - Generous PTO, sick time, bereavement leave, and floating holidays. - **Growth opportunities**: Committed to teammate development with training, coaching, and education assistance programs. - **Awards**: Inc. Best Places to Work, Built In Best Remote Places to Work, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers. - **Team size**: 630 employees and growing. ## Sources 1. [huntress.com](https://www.huntress.com/) 2. [huntress.com/company/careers](https://www.huntress.com/company/careers) 3. [huntress.com/company/our-story](https://www.huntress.com/company/our-story) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress) 5. 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