Software Engineer - SIEM Platform (Ruby/Rails)

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $140,000 to $160,000 base plus bonus and equity 

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do: 

The Huntress team is looking for an innovative and highly motivated Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join our team and play a key role in enhancing our log parsing capabilities.  In this role, you will be responsible for ingesting large-scale log data and developing and maintaining log source parsers that integrate with our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system.  As a full-stack developer with more focus on backend development, you will work closely with senior engineers to ensure high-quality, efficient, and reliable parsing of diverse log formats

The Huntress Security Platform consists of the Huntress AWS Portal and over 2.6 million endpoint agents, which send telemetry used for threat hunting and remediation to our web portal.  You will focus on building new and exciting features from the product roadmap while helping our product scale to handle the management of agents and their data as our customer base grows.  You will work with a smart and diverse team of problem solvers who exhibit high energy, deep technical skills, and a drive to get things done. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain log source parsers using Ruby on Rails
• Write and optimize regular expressions (Regex) to extract critical information from log files
• Collaborate with security engineers to understand log formats and parsing requirements
• Ensure the accuracy and efficiency of log parsing through testing and validation
• Contribute to the improvement of our log parsing infrastructure and processes
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers

What You Bring To The Team:

• 3+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of programming experience with Ruby on Rails
• Strong understanding of regular expressions (Regex) and their application in log parsing, ensuring performant and optimized solutions for large-scale data processing
• Basic understanding of security by design
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SIEM systems (e.g., Splunk, QRadar)
• Familiarity with ClickHouse database
• Knowledge of Elastic Common Schema (ECS)
• Experience with JavaScript and CSS
• Experience working with external APIs

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

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 small businesses.

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 [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. 

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