Principal Engineer, Agentic SOC - Remote AI Security Lead

Huntress; United States; Remote; USD 215,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options for all full-time

100% remote work environment

Generous PTO and paid parental leave

Job summary

Huntress is building a 100% remote, enterprise-grade Agentic SOC with an emphasis on automated investigation and evidence-backed decisions. You will lead the architecture and implementation of an LLМ-powered agent system that augments analysts, scales across thousands of tenants, and reduces toil while maintaining strong guardrails and auditability.

The role focuses on deep backend work, distributed systems, and production-grade Python/Ruby/Rails-based services, with a heavy emphasis on

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience developing complex software products, including time as technical lead on production systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, shipping, and operating LLM-based agents in production.
• Security mindset: ensure multi-tenant isolation and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the Agentic SOC and define how signals move from detection to investigation.
• Build agents that investigate like senior analysts and reduce toil through AI preprocessing.
• Balance production reliability with pragmatic engineering and guardrails for autonomous actions.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Backend development

Distributed systems

LLM-based agents

AWS / Cloud

Code reviews

Security mindset

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Claude Code

Postgres

Redis

Job description

Huntress is building a 100% remote, enterprise-grade Agentic SOC with an emphasis on automated investigation and evidence-backed decisions. You will lead the architecture and implementation of an LLМ-powered agent system that augments analysts, scales across thousands of tenants, and reduces toil while maintaining strong guardrails and auditability.

The role focuses on deep backend work, distributed systems, and production-grade Python/Ruby/Rails-based services, with a heavy emphasis on