Senior Software Engineer, Windows EDR Agent (Golang)

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:  

• Cyber security experience or a willingness to learn
• 5+ years of hands-on experience writing efficient, clean, and well-tested Go code
• 5+ years of experience working with Windows internals, including memory management, file systems, security architecture
• 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
• Experience working with Win32API, WMI, Powershell, and drivers is a bonus
• Hands-on experience with Windows troubleshooting, including diagnosing/resolving system issues.
• Proven track record of developing software for distributed systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
• Experience or familiarity with EDR or EPP systems is a plus
• Experience with Mac and Linux operating systems is a plus
• Ability to coach or mentor junior engineers, helping them grow and excel in their roles

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 businesses of all sizes.

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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