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Principal Product Researcher
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[Hiring] Principal Product Researcher @Huntress
Mar 29, 2025 - Huntress is hiring a remote Principal Product Researcher. 💸 Salary: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
This role involves working as a Product Security Researcher at Huntress, focusing on cybersecurity solutions and protecting businesses from threats.
- Lead the security capabilities we bring to market, owning the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources
- Investigate Linux endpoint compromise to understand, document & combat attacker behavior
- Test attack paths, hunt, and solve for exploitation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
- Hack to FIX things; know how to break in and devise innovative fixes
- Test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths to develop reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits
- Identify and prototype telemetry data to expand current prevention, hardening, and detection capabilities
- Analyze and reverse engineer software to discover security weaknesses and undocumented features
- Distinguish between suspicious and malicious events to reach the highest accuracy true positive rate
- Conduct research and development efforts to further threat detection and security posture
- Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs
- Identify improvement opportunities in existing product features and explore new ones based on feedback
- Coordinate with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions
- Own & nurture cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery & launch
- Proven organizational and program management skills with attention to detail
- Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders
- Passion to translate expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes
- Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs
- Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways
Qualifications
- Expert knowledge of Linux distributions, eBPF, kernel modules, and audit frameworks
- Experience bypassing Linux EDR
- Experience building exploit proofs of concept (POC)
- Expert knowledge of Linux vulnerabilities & threats with the ability to emulate attacks
- Expert knowledge of Linux logs
- Expert knowledge of multi-tenant environments, especially supporting MSPs
- Linux systems administration knowledge
- Docker, Kubernetes knowledge
- Experience with conducting searches and creating visualizations in Elastic and Kibana is a plus
Requirements
- Innovator builder mindset – willing to build in the open and share early versions of work
Desired
- Experienced Cyber Network Operator, Computer Network Operator, Cyber Technical Operator Targeter or similar fields
- Red team experience, coursework, training, certifications
- Passion for the MSP community
- Security conference presenter
- Security community educator & advocate
Benefits
- 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
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$200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity
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Mar 29, 2025
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