Principal Software Engineer, Agentic SOC — Remote & Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote

Stock options

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Professional development stipend

Health benefits

Job summary

Huntress is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Agentic SOC effort from remote US. You will own the system architecture, define how signals become investigations, and determine what the agent can touch while ensuring determinism and auditability across thousands of customer environments.

You’ll work with SOC analysts, detection engineers, and product teams to design, implement, and scale backend systems, prioritizing reliability, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience developing complex software products with significant time as a technical lead on production systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, shipping, and operating LLM-based agents in production with guardrails and evaluation.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the Agentic SOC investigation system and define data flows, state management, and decision boundaries.
• Build and optimize agent-powered investigations that scale across thousands of tenants and provide auditable outputs.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts, detection engineers, product, and other engineering teams to ship reliable, secure backend systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Ruby on Rails

Backend programming

LLM-based agents

AWS/Azure

Security & multi-tenant isolation

Code architecture

Team leadership

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Claude Code

Job description

Huntress is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Agentic SOC effort from remote US. You will own the system architecture, define how signals become investigations, and determine what the agent can touch while ensuring determinism and auditability across thousands of customer environments.

You’ll work with SOC analysts, detection engineers, and product teams to design, implement, and scale backend systems, prioritizing reliability, security, and performance.