Staff CSIRT Analyst

Huntress; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Stock options

Home office stipend

Education allowance

Digital reimbursement

Job summary

Huntress is seeking a Staff CSIRT Analyst to serve as the core internal escalation point from our SOC, protecting our own organization with the same rigor we apply for customers. You will oversee end-to-end incident response, guide teams, and anticipate blockers to strengthen resilience.

You will partner with leaders across functions to drive preparedness, optimize telemetry, and lead cross-functional post-incident reviews.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Incident Response, SOC Operations, or Digital Forensics (DFIR).
• Advanced knowledge of EDR/MDR platforms, log aggregation (SIEM/ELK), and cloud security environments (AWS/Azure/M365).
• Ability to articulate root causes and translate insights into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead identification, triage, and validation of security incidents as the SOC escalation point.
• Design and execute incident readiness exercises to ensure responders are prepared at all levels.
• Tune telemetry sources with engineering and detection teams to improve true-positive rate.
• Collaborate with Offensive Security to identify coverage gaps and close them with product security and engineering.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive remediation tooling and process improvements.
• Develop and present lessons learned to stakeholders after major incidents or exercises.
• Create and maintain playbooks, configurations, and incident response standards.

Skills

Incident Response

SOC Operations

Digital Forensics

Communication

Cloud Security

SIEM/ELK

Tools

EDR/MDR platforms

SIEM/ELK

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/M365)

Job description

What We Do:

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.

Huntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 17M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.

Reports to: Director of Product Security and Incident Response

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $200,000.00 to $210,000.00 plus bonus and equity

What You’ll Do:

As a Staff CSIRT Analyst, you will be the cornerstone of Huntress’ internal security resilience. You will act as the primary internal escalation point from our SOC, ensuring we protect ourselves with the same rigor and products we use for our customers. In this role, you will strategize with leaders across multiple functions to identify work streams and own the end-to-end incident response lifecycle. You will guide teams, determine key milestones, and proactively anticipate blockers that could hinder our response capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Incident Response & Triage: Lead the identification, triage, and validation of security incidents through various telemetry sources, acting as the ultimate escalation point for the SOC.


• Strategic Preparedness: Drive organizational incident readiness by designing and executing practical response exercises (tabletops and purple teaming) to ensure first responders are prepared at all levels of our organization.


• Telemetry Optimization: Partner with engineering, product security, and detection engineering teams to tune existing telemetry sources to a high true-positive rate, reducing noise and increasing detection efficacy.


• Offensive Security Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Offensive Security team to identify visibility gaps and ensure proper coverage against modern threat actor TTPs. Partner with product security, engineering, detection engineering, and other applicable business units to close these gaps rather than treating them as a blocker.


• Continuous Improvement & Leadership: Lead cross-functional Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) to extract critical lessons learned; own the lifecycle of resulting remediation tasks, driving specific tooling and process enhancements that harden organizational defenses and response against future threats.


• Stakeholder Communication: Develop and present comprehensive reports and \"lessons learned\" to stakeholders at all levels following major incidents or exercises.


• Documentation: Create and maintain playbooks, system configurations, and incident response standards to ensure scalability and supportability.

What You Bring To The Team:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in Incident Response, SOC Operations, or Digital Forensics (DFIR).


• Technical Expertise: Advanced knowledge of EDR/MDR platforms, log aggregation (SIEM/ELK), and cloud security environments (AWS/Azure/M365).


• Problem Solving: Proven ability to articulate the root cause of complex problems using first principles and translate insights into technical solutions.


• Strategic Thinking: Experience leading small project teams and aligning tech stacks across functions.


• Communication: Exceptional ability to convey complex technical incident details to both technical teams and executive leadership.


• Tooling: Familiarity with automation/SOAR platforms and documentation tools like Confluence, Jira, and Lucid Chart.


• Mindset: A proactive, forward-thinking approach to security with a passion for building \"stewardship of culture\" through inclusive and actionable security behaviors.

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

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

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.

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