Staff Platform Engineer

Saasventurecapital; Alabama; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with 5% contribution

Stock options for all full-time

Home office reimbursement

Education/professional development aid

Digital reimbursement

BetterUp coaching access

Job summary

Huntress is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to strengthen our cloud infrastructure and scale our security platform. You will own multi-region resilience, build, monitor, and optimize core cloud systems, and collaborate across engineering teams to ensure reliable production services.

In this remote-first role, you’ll work with Terraform, Kubernetes, Go/Ruby/Python, and Datadog to deliver measurable improvements while embracing AI coding agents to move faster without compromising quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing Linux-based cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in multi-region or multi-cloud resilience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience orchestrating production workloads in Kubernetes.
• Strong coding proficiency in Go, Ruby, or Python, with a mindset focused on building scalable infrastructure tools.
• Proven track record operating enterprise observability tools like Datadog to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, with sound judgement about where their output needs verification
• Experience managing automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
• Clear communication style with a track record of collaborating across engineering teams to solve complex platform problems

Responsibilities

• Design, build, monitor, and scale the core cloud infrastructure supporting our security platform.
• Own platform infrastructure resilience across multi-region environments.
• Author Kubernetes admission controllers, and tackle multi-region capacity failover automation or memory leak fixes.
• Leverage AI coding agents to move faster without compromising production quality.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose concrete solutions to improve reliability and performance.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to guide software architecture and reduce infra pain points

Skills

Linux cloud infra

Multi-region resilience

Kubernetes production

Go/Ruby/Python

Datadog observability

AI coding agents

Terraform IaC

Cross-team communication

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

Kubernetes

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 5M endpoints and 16M 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.

Title: Staff Platform Engineer

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity

What You'll Do:

Huntress is expanding our Platform Engineering team and looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who brings unshakeable resilience to complex infrastructure challenges. In this role, you will build, monitor, and scale the core cloud infrastructure supporting our security platform. You will step up to own platform infrastructure resilience and tackle complex problems across multi-region environments. Variety is built into this role: one week you might author custom Kubernetes admission controllers, and the next you are tackling multi-region capacity failover automation or tracking down obscure memory leaks in production pods. AI coding agents are part of how this team works, and you will be expected to use them to move faster without loosening the bar on what reaches production.

You will get a full handle on our infrastructure stack and drive high-impact roadmap initiatives that directly keep our production environment rock-solid. We do not wait for permission to fix things here. You will spot platform bottlenecks, step up with concrete solutions, and stay unshakeable under system chaos. Beyond immediate infrastructure work, you will build a strong reputation across the engineering organization as a trusted technical partner who delivers measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments to improve service reliability, cost, and capacity failover
• Author custom Kubernetes tools, controllers, and infrastructure code using Terraform, Go, Python, or Ruby
• Support and extend observability infrastructure using Datadog to give deep visibility into system health and platform performance
• Diagnose and fix complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, and resource constraints across cloud environments
• Collaborate across engineering teams to guide software architecture choices and eliminate infrastructure pain points

What You Bring to the Team

• 7+ years of experience managing Linux-based cloud infrastructure
• Deep expertise in multi-region or multi-cloud resilience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience orchestrating production workloads in Kubernetes
• Strong coding proficiency in Go, Ruby, or Python, with a mindset focused on building scalable infrastructure tools
• Proven track record operating enterprise observability tools like Datadog to diagnose and resolve performance issues
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, with sound judgement about where their output needs verification
• Experience managing automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform (or any similar IaC tool)
• Clear communication style with a track record of collaborating across engineering teams to solve complex platform problems

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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