# Staff Software Engineer - Detection Platform

**Company:** [Huntress](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/huntress)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kafka, Temporal, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Ruby on Rails, Sigma, Distributed Systems, Event Pipelines, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads modernization and reliability improvements for high-volume detection engines and event pipelines. The role requires deep production distributed-systems experience in Go, cross-team technical leadership, and strong operability practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead modernization of detection engines and high-volume event pipelines, including support for the Sigma v2 specification and stateful event correlation.
- Rework existing detection pipelines and build new ones on a common platform, replacing bespoke per-product detectors.
- Define validation approaches to prove replacement pipelines behave equivalently before staged cutovers and retirement of legacy paths.
- Improve reliability under load through end-to-end latency measurement, liveness coverage, absence-of-work alerting, and bounded recovery mechanisms.
- Establish coherent event schemas and data contracts across engineering teams.
- Build validation and drift-detection tooling to identify upstream schema changes before they disrupt detections.
- Lead major cross-team technical workstreams, set direction, and write and review production code.

## Requirements
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed production systems at scale, primarily in Go.
- Experience working across multiple layers of the stack.
- Experience replacing or substantially re-architecting live, high-throughput systems without breaking consumers.
- Experience with high-volume event or data pipelines and their behavior under load.
- Strong observability and operability practices, including alerting for missing expected work.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries without relying on positional authority.
- Strong judgment regarding production quality and release readiness.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and a security-focused approach to correctness.

## Nice-to-haves
- Security operations or security engineering experience, including writing or tuning detections or working in a SOC.
- Experience with detection-as-code or rule- and DSL-driven systems, including parsing and evaluation.
- Experience building platform tooling for rule writers, analysts, and researchers.
- Ruby on Rails experience.

## Technology
- Go, Kafka, Temporal, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Ruby on Rails, Sigma.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base compensation: $200,000–$220,000, plus bonus and equity.
- 100% remote work environment.
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, and holidays.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Stock options for full-time employees.
- $500 one-time home-office reimbursement.
- Annual education and professional-development allowance.
- $75 USD monthly digital reimbursement.
- BetterUp coaching and professional-growth access.

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