Principal Software Engineer - Agentic SOC at Huntress · Remote (USA)
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AWS
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Azure
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Distributed Systems
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LLM
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15+ years of experience
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A track record of building evaluation for non-deterministic systems, such as labeled datasets, offline evals, and regression gates, and of m
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A security mindset: experience building systems that handle untrusted input, enforce multi-tenant isolation, and produce an audit trail that
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Experience building systems that make automated decisions with real consequences, and the judgment to know what to automate and what to leav
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Curiosity about how security analysts think and work, and a willingness to spend real time learning from them
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Strong skills in one or more backend languages and the ability to pick up new ones quickly. Our primary stack is Ruby on Rails, and we expec
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Security is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: LLM is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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