# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Huntress](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/huntress)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, Postgres, REST APIs, Odata, ClickHouse, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Ai Coding Tools
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Staff-level engineer building and scaling a new Identity Security Posture Management product. Owns technical vision, architecture for petabyte-scale data systems, and mentors junior engineers using Ruby on Rails.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails
- Implement efficient data pipelines to extract relevant information from massive amounts of noise
- Collaborate with security researchers to understand hacking strategies and methods to combat them
- Be a technical thought leader for your team, providing architectural and design direction
- Continuously improve solution quality through code reviews, manual and automated testing
- Set standards for excellence and develop processes that make the team continuously more efficient
- Lead more junior engineers to deliver larger projects, including breaking down ambiguous problems into well-defined tasks, validating designs, and serving as POC for stakeholders
- Design the systems and architecture to support processing petabytes of data efficiently

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience developing complex software products
- 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
- Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code
- Experience with relational databases, such as Postgres

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry
- Experience working with external APIs (particularly REST, OData, authZ and authN flows)
- Familiarity with identity and resource security providers like m365, Okta, Google Workspaces, or similar
- Experience with other data storage technologies (Clickhouse, Redis, ElasticSearch, Mongo, etc.)

## Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity
- 100% remote work environment
- 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

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