huntress

Principal Security Researcher - EDR (Windows)

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Compensation
emote, US Compensation Range: $200,000 to $230,000 base plus bonus and equity Wh
Posted
2026-07-17T11:39:33-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Python

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Requirements

Expert in Windows OS internals, components, APIs, and design

Prior experience with Windows OS kernel coding and device drivers

Experience testing EDRs, bypasses, and evasion techniques

Comfortable with reverse engineering and using debuggers

Proficiency in multiple programming/scripting languages, such as C/C++/C#, PowerShell, and Python

Experience with MITRE ATT&CK matrix, SIGMA, Yara, and Elasticsearch/Kibana

Compensation & Benefits

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

Responsibilities

The Huntress Product Research team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers.

Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools.

Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools is an additional way to differentiate yourself.

An effective Product Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line.

This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities.

We defend over 5M endpoints for 225,000+ mid-sized and small-business customers, and that number continues to grow each month.