Senior Software Engineer, Windows EDR Agent (Golang)

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Reports to : Engineering Manager

Location : Remote US

Compensation Range : $160,000 to $190,000 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 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ 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 a Senior Software Engineer with experience writing software that interfaces with the Windows Operating System at a low level. In this role, you 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.

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

What You Bring To The Team :

What We Offer :

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 , , , ancestry, , , , , , , veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

Accommodations :

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