Principal Software Engineer, SOC Experience (Ruby/Rails)

15+ years of experience developing complex software products

8+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails

Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud environments

Experience with relational databases such as Postgres and with in-memory datastores such as Redis

Experience building production systems with LLMs, using agents, tools, evaluation, guardrails, and common, proven patterns

Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code

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

The Huntress team seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join our Security Operations Center (SOC) Experience team.

This team builds the systems that enable Huntress’ human-led SOC to operate at scale across investigative workflows, protecting our customers and our partners’ customers.

The team’s work is about building the operational backbone for modern SOC execution: live triage and investigation experiences, workflow-driven automation, agentic investigation capabilities, remediation actions, and customer-facing reporting.

The team also owns the steady stream of operational work as new detections, products, and capabilities come online across the Huntress platform.  Your contributions will help Huntress improve analyst efficiency, reduce toil, and drive customer outcomes as we scale

As a Principal Software Engineer at Huntress, you will provide technical leadership across this space by shaping architecture, decomposing ambiguous problems, and driving execution on the highest-leverage work.

You will partner closely with engineering, product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable, and scalable systems.