Principal Product Researcher, Endpoint Security Posture Management

Location:  Remote US

Reports to: Director of Product Research

Compensation Range: $210,000 to $230,000 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 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

Responsibilities:  

• Lead the security Capabilities we bring to market, owning the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple data sources
• Convert application and endpoint vulnerability research + findings into actionable preventive and remediation actions by generating security software engineering requirements 
• Translate CVE & vendor hardware/software vulnerability research into security product development
• Reverse engineer operating system (OS) components to identify + action OS control mechanism opportunities for security product development
• Research vulnerability management automation opportunities to scale patching + security fixes for all operating systems and applications across millions of endpoints
• Report on health and security posture for millions of endpoints across tens of thousands of varied environments
• Iterate high-impact security posture baselines that align security posture to reduce & remediate risk
• Measure endpoint protection software solution effectiveness at reducing risk, closing security gaps & decreasing attacks/access
• Design, architect, and build vulnerability management scanning infrastructure and tools
• Research technical escalations for endpoint protection Capabilities
• Expert experience in configuration management across endpoint platforms - including firewalls, application control, attack surface reduction, & vulnerability management solutions
• Balance security with productivity, building an intentional alert strategy that empowers risk owners with security posture improvement opportunities that don’t create friction to business delivery
• Leverage AI for security value research
• Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing product features and explore new ones based on feedback from partners, prospects, peers, and industry publications.
• Coordinate with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate and operationalize solutions you develop.
• Own & nurture the cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery & launch.
• Proven organizational and program management skills, with keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures.
• Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders.
• Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%.
• Promote Huntress’ reputation through media appearances, public speaking engagements, and blog posts.
• Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways.

What You Bring To The Team: 

• Expert experience in configuration management across endpoint platforms - including firewalls, application control, attack surface reduction, & vulnerability management solutions
• Experience reverse engineering
• Experience leveraging AI to gen