Senior Software Engineer - SIEM Platform (Ruby/Rails)

Huntress

7h•$160,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

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 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting. The Huntress team is seeking an innovative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) team. This person will join a team responsible for the development of features for the Huntress managed SIEM that is part of the Huntress Security Platform, which provides automated detection and human-powered threat hunting. You'll be working with Ruby on Rails to build scalable features that help our product grow as we continue to expand our security monitoring capabilities. A SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system is a platform that collects, stores, and analyzes security data across an organization to detect threats and support investigations. Huntress SIEM puts enterprise-grade security within reach for any team. Our managed SIEM is designed to deliver real security outcomes with less operational burden—helping teams detect threats faster without the cost, complexity, or staffing demands of legacy SIEM platforms. With 24/7 monitoring, expert management, and straightforward pricing, Huntress Managed SIEM makes advanced cybersecurity simple and accessible for organizations of all sizes.

Requirements

8+ years of experience developing complex software products
5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
Experience in Agile or Shape Up development methodologies
Experience with databases such as Postgres or Clickhouse
Experience working with external APIs
Experience reviewing code, problem-solving solving and technical troubleshooting
BS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience gained through work experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cloud Environments is preferred
Experience building and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting) is preferred
Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry is a nice to have

Responsibilities

Responsible for the technical development of features for the Portal and delivering quality solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails
Develop high-quality software, software designs and architecture
Ensure code quality and test code through deliverables by testing own code and reviewing peers
Take ownership of the timely completion of work, problem-solving and robust code
Actively engage and contribute to the team and new innovations
Ability to mentor or coach junior engineers