Staff Software Engineer - ISPM Platform (Ruby/Rails)

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. 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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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; Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; Ability to learn quickly and think outside the box

Nice to have

Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry; Experience with external APIs (particularly REST, OData, authZ and authN flows); Familiarity with identity and resource security providers like m365, Okta, Google Workspaces, or similar; Experience with other data storage technologies (Clickhouse, Redis, ElasticSearch, Mongo, etc.)

Benefits

Bonus and equity; 100% remote work environment; 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