Staff Platform Engineer

Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering 

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $170,000 to $195,000 base plus bonus and equity

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 4M+ endpoints and 8M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do: 

Huntress is growing our Platform Engineering team and is looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about stability, resilience, and scalability. You’ll be joining a high-performing team responsible for proactively building, monitoring, and implementing the infrastructure that is a part of the Huntress Security Platform, providing a first-class development platform to our developers, and tracking and supporting the complete lifecycle of our millions of installed endpoint agents.

Responsibilities:  

• Develop tools and frameworks to automate the operational tasks and deployments of services and applications for our Portal and Endpoint Agents in Azure and on end-user machines
• Support and enhance our existing observability capabilities to provide better scalability and system health outcomes, both in the cloud and on remote endpoint agents
• Develop tools in test and production environments to enable and accelerate the development teams to provide a world-class experience for our partners
• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
• Support the product development teams’ ability to design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance

What You Bring To The Team:  

• 7+ years of experience with autoscaling application architecture in Azure Cloud Environments
• 7+ years of experience working on Linux-based infrastructure
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or similar container orchestration platforms
• High coding proficiency – Go or Python preferred
• Experience with automation using Terraform
• Configuration and infrastructure management for databases such as Postgres on RDS
• Experience with observability tools like DataDog, NewRelic, etc.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams

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 [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. 

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