Senior Software Architect

Huntress

3h•$230,000 - $260,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Architect, you will work in the Innovation department, reporting to and collaborating with the CTO, as a dedicated "Zero to One" specialist. While your peers focus on expanding current products and scaling the backbone of our existing platform, your mission is to incubate the next generation of Huntress products from scratch. You will work at the bleeding edge of cybersecurity, turning raw ideas and emerging threat research into functional, high-performance prototypes. This role is for a builder who thrives in ambiguity and can bridge the gap between a "napkin sketch" and a production-ready architectural foundation. You will partner directly with the co-founders and product leaders to de-risk new technologies and define the technical future of how we defend against tomorrow's adversaries.

Requirements

Proven Builder Track Record: Extensive experience taking technical products from initial concept to launch.
Innovation Mindset: A "strong opinions, weakly held" approach, comfortable with rapid pivots and being proven wrong by data or prototypes.
Full-Stack Architectural Depth: Understanding of the 'sensor-to-cloud' journey, from endpoint telemetry to actionable backend intelligence.
Polyglot Engineering Skills: Proficiency in multiple languages (preference for Go and Ruby) and a willingness to lead by doing in the codebase.
Business Translation: Ability to negotiate trade-offs with teams and leaders at all levels of the company.
Scaling Foresight: While focused on "Zero to One," you understand how to design systems that will eventually handle millions of events per second, with the discipline to navigate tradeoffs to deliver value to customers quickly.
Iterative progression: A bias for delivering steel threads that demonstrate well-scoped outcomes and solicit early feedback.

Responsibilities

Lead the "Zero to One" phase for new cybersecurity offerings, moving from concept to high-fidelity prototype.
Build core libraries and initial services for new products, primarily using Go and Ruby.
Design flexible, scalable architectures for experimental products that can eventually integrate into the broader Huntress platform.
Solve the hardest early-stage problems, proving that new detection methods or data ingestion styles are viable at scale.
Partner with Researchers and Product teams to translate complex adversarial behaviors into automated response capabilities.
Act as a technical proxy for the CTO when evaluating "build vs. buy" decisions for new product lines.
Establish engineering standards for new projects and mentor engineers as they transition into these emerging product teams.