Huntress

Huntress

Staff Software Engineer - Showcase Platform (Ruby/Rails)

United States of America · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$220kDetected 6 days ago
RubyRailsCode ReviewRedisElasticsearchRESTA/B TestingCybersecuritySOC OperationsCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.
  • We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all.
  • Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 11M identities worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • This role will help ensure Showcase can support the full range of use cases that Huntress sells today, while laying the groundwork for future feature expansion.
  • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end Showcase solutions, primarily using Ruby on Rails.
  • Define and drive technical direction for Showcase initiatives, including user experiences, experimentation surfaces, and supporting platform capabilities.
  • Build and improve instrumentation, analytics, and monitoring workflows that support product-led growth experiments and help the team understand usage patterns and experience quality.
  • Partner closely with Product and peer engineering teams to translate roadmap goals into scalable, well-scoped technical work.
  • Be a technical thought leader for the team, providing architectural and design direction and helping shape long-term engineering strategy.
  • Set standards for excellence and help develop processes that make the team continuously more effective.
  • Lead greater efforts by breaking down ambiguous problems, validating designs, mentoring engineers, and serving as a technical point of contact for stakeholders.
  • Collaborate across the stack when needed, moving between UI, backend systems, data models, and internal integrations to deliver cohesive solutions.
  • That's why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC).

Requirements

  • Experience working with relational data models and production databases in Rails applications.
  • Strong product and systems thinking, with an ability to connect user experience, experimentation, reliability, and implementation details.
  • Experience with AI coding tools and workflows, with the ability to help the team adopt them effectively, responsibly, and pragmatically.
  • You will also help extend Showcase's value beyond core feature delivery by supporting product team enablement, reseller support needs, and the internal tooling or workflows required to make Showcase a dependable part of how Huntress demonstrates and sells its platform.
  • To The Team:
  • 10+ years building and evolving complex software products, with demonstrated success operating at the staff-level scope.
  • Deep expertise in building and scaling production Ruby on Rails systems (min 5yrs), with the ability to guide architectural direction and raise the bar for the team.
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, set technical direction, influence cross-functional decisions, and move a team forward through high-impact work.
  • Experience building internal and stakeholder-facing product experiences and translating business or platform needs into scalable software solutions.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market stakeholder groups.
  • A strong coaching mindset, with a demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, grow team capability, and support development across both technical and career domains.

Nice to have

  • Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry.
  • Experience working with external APIs, particularly REST APIs and modern authentication and authorization flows.
  • Experience designing or supporting analytics, experimentation, or product-led growth workflows.
  • Experience with additional data storage or analysis technologies such as ClickHouse, Redis, ElasticSearch, or MongoDB.
  • 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
  • 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 discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

Skills

  • Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.

Compensation

  • Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity

Benefits

  • 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
  • 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

Company info

  • Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations.
  • Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes.
  • Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence.
  • Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.
  • Showcase is Huntress's internal demo platform, used by sellers to provision live, guided product demo environments that reliably represent the Huntress platform and support the use cases we sell today.
  • Working on Showcase is a unique opportunity to work in Rails across the Huntress platform and help shape how customers discover value in our products.
  • The team is responsible for Showcase stability and reliability, ensuring it works every time, the first time, while also improving observability, quality of service, and overall confidence in the platform.

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