# Principal Software Engineer - Agentic SOC

**Company**: Huntress
**Location**: United States of America
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $215,000 to $240,000 base plus bonus and equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of an Agentic SOC. This system aims to augment analysts by automating high-volume, repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on complex cases.

Responsibilities:

- Own the architecture of agentic investigation

- Build agents that investigate like a strong analyst

- Take toil off analysts' plates

- Bring a security mindset to the agent itself

- Treat evaluation as a core part of the product

- Decide with data what the system does on its own

- Build for production, not for demos

- Augment analysts, don't replace them

- Prototype your way through hard problems

- Be the engineering face of the Agentic SOC

- Balance technical rigor with pragmatism

- Raise the floor and the ceiling

Requirements:

- 15+ years of experience developing complex software products

- Hands-on experience designing, shipping, and operating LLM-based agents in production

- A track record of building evaluation for non-deterministic systems

- A security mindset

- Experience building systems that make automated decisions with real consequences

- Curiosity about how security analysts think and work

- Deep backend expertise in distributed systems, queues, and durable workflows

- Strong skills in one or more backend languages

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud environments

- Experience with AI coding tools

What We Offer:

- 100% remote work environment

- Generous paid time off policy

- 12 weeks of paid parental leave

- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans

- 401(k) with a 5% 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

## Skills

### Required
- LLM-based agents
- distributed systems
- queues
- durable workflows
- backend languages
- AWS
- Azure
- AI coding tools

### Nice to have
- Experience working in or building for a SOC
- Familiarity with endpoint and identity telemetry
- Experience attacking or adversarially testing ML or LLM systems
- Experience with Ruby on Rails

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