Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Reports to: Director, Software Engineering 

Location: Remote US

Compensation: $200,000 to $230,000 base salary, plus bonus and equity 

 

What We Do:

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 4M+ endpoints and 8M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do:

Huntress is seeking an innovative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineering Manager with excellent technical and leadership skills to lead a team of software engineers responsible for maintaining endpoint agent health across various operating systems. As the Senior Manager, you will support our mission to build a Managed Security platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses improve their security with tools that best fit their needs, workflows, and budgets. You will work closely with the entire Engineering, Product, and Security teams to build the type of solutions Huntress has become known for—solutions that not only solve problems but drastically improve industry standards, workflows, and user experiences.

Leaders at Huntress are focused on team building, coaching, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.  You will be working with an expert team of smart and diverse problem solvers who exhibit high energy, deep technical skills, and a drive to get things done.   

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Partner experience with our fleet of 4.2 million (and growing) agents
• Help the team analyze incoming data to develop a full picture of Agent Health in the wild
• Constantly evolve better observability to improve that data
• Understand and improve the build, installation, testing, and upgrades of our endpoints across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems
• Work with the team to define roadmaps to continuously improve the Partner experience 
• Able to bring both technical skills and effective people management leadership
• Coach and mentor a diverse team of engineers with an emphasis on collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and timely quality delivery
• Work closely with internal recruiting to partner on strategic hiring when needed
• Work with your team and cross-functional partners to influence and define strategy and roadmaps, and be responsible for achieving timely execution and quality outcomes
• Participate in technical design and implementation
• Drive software quality and timely, predictable software delivery while balancing the needs of the business and team members
• Set clear expectations, standards, and goals for team excellence, driving performance improvements at both team and individual levels. Measure impact and adjust accordingly
• Ensure code quality and test coverage by ensuring the team performs proper code reviews and appropriate testing
• Use a servant-leadership mindset to ensure that engineers and engineering managers have everything they need to design, build, iterate on, and ship high-quality software promptly
• Drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
• Work effectively with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
• Lead with transparency, candidly challenge assumptions, and exhibit integrity above all else

What You Bring To The Team:

• 7+ years of experience developing complex software products
• 5+ years of experience managing a large fleet of installed agents
• 5+ years of experience hiring, managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
• Experience with different software development methodologies such as ShapeUp, plan-build-ship, Scrum, and Kanban
• Experience with developing cross-platform software targeting multiple operating systems
• Ability to grasp new software architecture and technology quickly
• Ability to operate independently, make decisions, take action, and take responsibility
• Accountability for timely quality delivery
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with product, development teams, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders to help minimize silos and drive teamwork across teams 

What We Offer: 

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans 
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee 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

  

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. 

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.  

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

Accommodations: 

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. 

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