Remote Senior Software Engineer, Windows SIEM Agent (Go)

Summary

Join the hunt and help us stop hackers in their tracks! The Huntress team is looking for a senior engineer with experience writing software that interfaces with the Windows Operating System at a low level. This engineer will be responsible for developing applications that communicate from our customers' Windows systems to our web portal, providing our threat operations team with critical threat-hunting information.

Requirements

• Cyber security experience or a willingness to learn
• Able to communicate highly technical concepts clearly and concisely
• 5+ years of hands-on experience writing efficient, clean, and well-tested Go code
• 5+ years of experience developing low-level software that interfaces closely with the underlying operating system, with a deep understanding of how systems work at their core
• 5+ years of experience working with Windows internals, including memory management, file systems, security architecture
• Proven track record of developing software for distributed systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a high-performance Windows agent using Go
• Build features for a Windows application that interfaces with various low-level Windows APIs on Windows to collect data and send it to our SaaS application
• Leverage your knowledge of Windows internals, Win32API, WMI, Powershell, and drivers to develop robust solutions
• Integrate our endpoint application with our backend SaaS web application's REST APIs for managing state and providing information that is used for threat hunting, paying particular attention to low resource usage on Windows hosts
• Contribute to the security and scalability of the agent in a distributed architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align development efforts with company goals
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, guiding best software development and cybersecurity practices
• Communicate highly technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with DevOps to use our end-to-end testing framework to test our agent and its interactions with our web portal

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
• 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