# Staff Software Engineer - Detection Platform (GoLang) at Huntress

- Company: Huntress
- What the company does: Stop cyberattacks with the Huntress Managed Platform. Get 24/7 SOC-backed EDR, ITDR, SIEM, & Security Awareness Training for enterprise-grade protection across all your environments. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://huntress.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States of America
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/7977228003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/huntress-staff-software-engineer-detection-platform-golang/

## About the role

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build and rebuild these systems without disrupting the SOC that depends on them, and to make their behavior predictable under load. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you'll lead major workstreams, set direction that other engineering teams build against, and write and review production code every week.

## What they're looking for

- Deep experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems at scale, primarily in Go, with the range to work across several layers of the stack
- Experience with high-volume event or data pipelines, and a good feel for how they behave under load: where things queue, where they fall behind, and what happens to correctness when they do
- Strong operability instincts. You design observability in rather than retrofitting it, and you've built alerting that catches the absence of expected work, not just errors
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries. You've set a direction that other teams had to build against and raised the engineering bar around you, without needing positional authority
- Judgment about production quality: when a system is good enough to ship, when it needs more evaluation, and when it shouldn't ship at all
- Hands-on experience with AI coding tools, and a point of view on using them well, where correctness is a security outcome

Tags: Platform Engineering