Staff Software Engineer - SOC Platform (Ruby/Rails)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Paid time off

Parental leave 12 weeks

401(k) with 5% contribution

Stock options for all full‑time

Home office stipend $500

Education & development allowance

BetterUp coaching access

Job summary

Huntress is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the SOC Experience team for the remote US. You’ll lead architecture, guide implementation, and mentor engineers to build a scalable SOC platform with data-dense, interactive interfaces.

You’ll work across product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to translate operational pain points into reliable systems, ensuring security-by-design and high availability. Compensation ranges from $200k to $220k, plus bonus and equity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing complex software products.
• 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud environments, and Linux-based infrastructure.
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
• Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the SOC Experience surface area: investigation and triage experience, remediation actions, queues, and customer-facing reporting.
• Lead and develop high-quality software, software designs, and architecture
• Set the standard for engineering excellence on the team through code review, test plan review, and hands-on pairing
• Lead security-by-design reviews of designs and code
• Focus on the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including evolution, configuration, and risk management
• Share ownership of delivery, reliability, and uptime for the features you build, with observability and test automation built in
• Mentor engineers across the team to help them grow into harder problems
• Balance technical rigor with pragmatism: push back when a shortcut creates real risk, and push back on over-engineering when the goal is discovery or speed
• Partner with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable systems

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Full-stack development

Software architecture

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Linux

Hotwire

Stimulus

Turbo

Job description

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Staff Software Engineer - SOC Platform (Ruby/Rails)

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 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.

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Remote US

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

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 11M 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.

What You’ll Do:

The Huntress team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join our SOC Experience team. This team builds the human-analyst side of Huntress’ SOC platform: the investigation and triage experience analysts use to work a case, the remediation actions they take, the queues that route and prioritize incoming work, and the customer-facing reporting that closes the loop with customers. Your contributions will help Huntress improve analyst efficiency, reduce toil, and drive customer outcomes as we scale protection for the 99% .

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership across this surface area: shaping architecture and design direction, converting ambiguous requirements into functional workflows and data models, raising the bar on code quality and testing, and mentoring engineers across the team. You’ll partner closely with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable systems, and you’ll go deep in the code yourself. This is a full-stack role with real front-end weight: the analyst experiences you’ll build are data-dense, interactive interfaces, and you’ll set the bar for front-end quality as well as the back end.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership across the SOC Experience surface area: investigation and triage experience, remediation actions, queues, and customer-facing reporting.

Lead and develop high-quality software, software designs, and architecture

Set the standard for engineering excellence on the team through code review, test plan review, and hands‑on pairing

Lead security‑by‑design reviews of designs and code

Focus on the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including evolution, configuration, and risk management, not just initial delivery

Share ownership of delivery, reliability, and uptime for the features you build, with observability and test automation built in

Mentor engineers across the team to help them grow into harder problems

Balance technical rigor with pragmatism: push back when a shortcut creates real risk, and push back on over‑engineering when the goal is discovery or speed

Partner with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable systems

What You Bring To The Team:

10+ years of experience developing complex software products

5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails

Experience with AWS or other public cloud environments, and Linux‑based infrastructure

Experience with relational databases such as Postgres

Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with ClickHouse

Experience building cybersecurity products, or building/operating a SOC platforms

Experience with Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo

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

Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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