Huntress

Principal Security Researcher, Google

United States

$210,000 – $240,000Compensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Cybersecurity, Information TechnologyIndustries

About Huntress

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 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

About the Role

Do you like getting into the weeds on all things technical, psychological, and educational, and have a desire to know how things work? Then this is the position for you. We are looking for that jack of all trades who brings broad experience to each challenge presented. The Huntress Security team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers. As a Security Product Researcher, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats. Competitive candidates have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools. Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools are additional ways to differentiate yourself.

As you can imagine, success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. An effective Security Researcher fosters highly collaborative environments between the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to accelerate our mission and secure the 99% of businesses that fall below the enterprise poverty line. This collaboration is needed to produce and prioritize a unified technical vision that ultimately delivers our most impactful features and capabilities.

We defend over 2.5M endpoints across 33,000+ mid-sized and small business customers, and that number continues to grow each month. Considering this market’s tighter budget, it’s not financially possible to dedicate human analysts to each client. The Security Operations team addresses this challenge head-on by building and scaling highly automated efficiencies—often lightly augmented by our SOC — that make intruders earn every inch of their access while maintaining affordability and healthy gross margins.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the security Capabilities we bring to market, owning the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple data sources
  • Investigate identity compromises such as account takeover, session hijacking, and credential theft, to convert attacker behavior into threat detection and identity security product capabilities
  • Hunt threat actors in Google environments to discover attacker initial access, abuse, and persistence
  • Test attack paths. Go beyond disclosing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to developing requirements for security products that shut out attackers
  • Safely & ethically test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that result in developing reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits for identified vulnerabilities
  • Identify telemetry that confirms malicious activity with high confidence, even when little or no environment basel

Job Details

Reports to: Director, Product Research Location: Remote US Compensation Range: $210,000 to $240,000 base plus bonus and equity

Skills

Cybersecurity
Security Research
Product Management
Incident Response
Social Engineering
SMB Environments
Security Software
Automation Tools
Ethical Hacking
Threat Analysis

Huntress

Managed endpoint detection and response services

About Huntress

Huntress provides managed endpoint detection and response (EDR) services to protect businesses from cyber threats, particularly ransomware. Their service includes 24/7 monitoring of clients' systems to identify potential cyberattacks. When a threat is detected, their team of security experts verifies the activity and alerts the client only if necessary, reducing the number of false positives that can occur with other services. In addition to threat hunting, Huntress offers security awareness training and resources like eBooks and webinars to educate employees about cybersecurity risks. Their commitment to high customer support and personalized reporting distinguishes them from competitors in the cybersecurity field. The goal of Huntress is to enhance the security posture of businesses by providing effective monitoring and education against cyber threats.

Columbia, MarylandHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$281.8MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
CybersecurityIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Benefits

100% remote work environment
Generous PTO including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
12 weeks paid parental leave
Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
401(k) with 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
Life and Disability insurance plans
Stock options for all full-time employees
One-time $500 stipend to build/upgrade home office
Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
$75 USD/month digital reimbursement
Access to both Udemy and BetterUp platforms for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Risks

Exploitation of security flaws in data transfer tools could affect Huntress's clients.
Social engineering attacks may bypass AI security measures, posing a risk to Huntress.
Difficulty in finding specialized talent could hinder Huntress's expansion efforts.

Differentiation

Huntress offers a 24/7 Security Operations Center for continuous threat monitoring.
The company integrates with Microsoft 365, enhancing security for businesses using Microsoft tools.
Huntress eliminates false positives by verifying threats before alerting clients.

Upsides

Huntress raised $180 million to expand and accelerate product development.
Recognition in Inc.'s Power Partner Awards boosts Huntress's market credibility.
Increased demand for cybersecurity due to remote work benefits Huntress's growth.

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