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Staff Software Engineer - Detection Platform (GoLang)

Huntress· Platform Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote US)$200k - $220kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff software engineering role focused on modernizing and operating Huntress Detection Platform, owning cross-team delivery of high-throughput, reliable detection engines and pipelines, with hands-on coding and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Detection engine and pipeline modernization. Rewriting to support Sigma v2, stateful cross-event correlation, migrating from bespoke detectors to a common platform, leading major workstreams and validating equivalence of reworked pipelines.
  • Reliability and behavior under load. Implement end-to-end latency measurement, liveness coverage, alerting, and mechanisms to bound and recover from spikes to ensure non-disruptive operation under load.
  • Event schemas and data contracts. Contribute to coherent internal standards, build validation and drift-detection tooling to catch upstream changes before they affect detections.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems at scale, primarily in Go; across multiple stack layers.
  • Experience replacing or re-architecting live high-throughput systems with proven safe cut-over strategies.
  • Experience with high-volume data pipelines and understanding of behavior under load, queues, lag, and correctness during backpressure.
  • Strong operability instincts: observability-by-design, effective alerting for missing work, and production diagnostics.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, setting direction and raising engineering bar without formal authority.
  • Judgment on production quality and shipping decisions; knowing when to ship, evaluate, or hold.

Skills

Required:GoDistributed systemsHigh-volume data pipelinesObservability / SRE practicesTechnical leadershipAI tooling awareness
Nice to have:Security operations/engineering (strongly preferred)Ruby on Rails (nice-to-have)

Benefits

  • 100% remote work environment
  • Generous PTO (vacation, sick time, holidays)
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits
  • 401(k) with 5% company contribution
  • Life and Disability insurance
  • Stock options for all full-time employees
  • One-time $500 home office stipend
  • Annual education and professional development allowance
  • $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
  • Access to BetterUp coaching platform
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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