Role Description The Lead Platform Engineer will be responsible for the systems, tooling, and workflows that define how our engineers build, test, and ship software. This role drives foundational platform improvements—from monorepo architecture and modern C++ build pipelines to AI-assisted developer tooling and cloud infrastructure. The role will lead major infrastructure initiatives including the modernization of our build environment and toolchain and management of source control and cloud infrastructure. The role will partner closely with engineering teams to ensure platform changes reduce friction, maintain build performance, and equip engineers to move fast on complex scientific software and requires working fluency across the scripting and tooling languages used throughout our stack. Job Responsibilities - Build System Modernization - Lead the design and implementation of a monorepo strategy, resolving cross-repository dependency management across a portfolio of scientific C++ libraries. - Own CMake build system architecture, ensuring reproducibility, incremental correctness, and performance through platform transitions. - Evaluate and evolve C++ package management (vcpkg or equivalent) to fit the target monorepo model. - Prototype and benchmark build configurations on target hardware to make data-driven toolchain recommendations. - Developer Environment and Tooling - Own the infrastructure engineering and evolution of an AI-assisted developer IDE, including model gateway architecture, agent integrations, and developer workflow enhancements. - Evaluate and integrate AI model platforms (AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, and others) into developer tooling via abstraction layers that allow model substitution without client-side changes. - Define and maintain developer environment standards, onboarding automation, and configuration-as-code practices. - Cross-Team Technical Leadership - Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for developer platform infrastructure, communicating trade-offs clearly to engineering teams and senior stakeholders. - Partner with engineering leads to understand domain-specific build requirements for computationally intensive scientific software and factor them into platform decisions. - Coordinate infrastructure rollouts across teams, managing dependencies, sequencing, and risk mitigation. - Architecture and Technical Design - Design and document platform architecture for build systems, developer tooling, and AI model integration. - Establish baselines and success metrics for platform initiatives (build time, cache hit rate, onboarding time). - Identify and mitigate technical risks in infrastructure transitions before they affect engineering productivity. - Evaluate emerging developer productivity tools and make evidence-based adoption recommendations. - Infrastructure as Code and Source Control - Own and administer the organization’s GitHub presence, including repository structure, branch protection, access controls, and org-level policy enforcement. - Design and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including reusable workflows, composite actions, and self-hosted runner infrastructure integrated with build caching. - Manage infrastructure via Terraform, including module library, remote state, and drift detection. - Establish branching strategies, release workflows, and code review policies that scale across teams. - Quality, Observability, and Security - Instrument build and tooling pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerts to detect regressions and measure improvements. - Ensure platform infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements, including credential and secrets management for cloud and AI services. - Maintain documentation and runbooks for all platform systems. - Other Duties as Assigned Qualifications - 6+ years of software engineering or platform/infrastructure engineering experience focused on developer productivity or build systems. - Hands-on experience with build systems, including incremental builds, dependency management, and toolchain configuration. - Experience modernizing legacy build tooling and replacing distributed compilation systems with modern caching alternatives (sccache, ccache, or similar). - Experience with monorepo architecture and the trade-offs versus multi-repo approaches. - Familiarity with C++ package management systems such as vcpkg or Conan. - Working proficiency in Python and Node.js for build tooling, automation, and platform scripting. - Experience managing developer environment infrastructure, including endpoint provisioning, environment configuration, and onboarding automation. - Hands-on GitHub organization administration, including repository management, access control (teams, SSO/SAML), and policy enforcement. - Strong proficiency with GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, composite actions, and self-hosted runner management. - Production Terraform experience, including module design, remote state management, and cloud provider integration. - Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), particularly compute and storage services used in CI/CD. - Track record of leading multi-team infrastructure initiatives with clear ownership and delivery. - Ability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and build alignment before large migrations. - Strong written communication skills for architecture decision records, technical documentation, and cross-team coordination. Preferred Qualifications - Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or scientific computing software environments. - Familiarity with simulation or modeling software that involves computationally intensive C++ codebases. - Understanding of software development in regulated industries and the quality standards that apply. - Experience with Bazel, Buck2, or other build systems suited to monorepo incremental builds. - Familiarity with R and its use in scientific computing or data analysis workflows. - Familiarity with LLM observability tooling (e.g., Langfuse, Helicone, Arize, or CloudWatch LLM metrics). - Experience with agile development methodologies and working within a structured engineering organization. - Familiarity with inner-source or platform-team models of developer tooling ownership. - Understanding of security best practices for developer infrastructure, including secrets management and least-privilege access patterns. Education - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field preferred. - Masters or PhD in computer science, software engineering, or related field a plus. - Certifications in cloud platforms or build systems preferred.

• Own and manage AWS infrastructure across all environments • Write and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform • Ensure environments are reliable, secure, and cost-efficient • Design and implement infrastructure changes that support product growth • Build and maintain deployment pipelines that let engineers ship quickly and safely • Reduce friction in the development workflow without sacrificing reliability • Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate manual toil • Support engineers with clear runbooks and infrastructure documentation • Monitor system health, set up alerting, and respond to incidents • Implement and maintain security best practices across cloud infrastructure • Own backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness processes • Proactively identify and address reliability risks before they become incidents • Actively use AI tools to improve infrastructure workflows, automation, and debugging

Reports to: Vice President, Engineering Location: Remote US Compensation: $240,000 to $300,000 base plus bonus and equity What We Do: Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection. Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 11M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other. What You’ll Do: Huntress seeks an experienced leader to elevate our Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) teams and deliver purpose-built products for all businesses. In this role, you’ll be responsible for teams that develop our fast-growing ITDR product, which protects over 11M identities across thousands of customers. You will also be responsible for growing a team for one of our newest products, Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). We’re seeking a passionate, inclusive engineering leader who can bring state-of-the-art engineering practices and deep experience in developing teams and people to accelerate our next growth phase. You will pair highly performing engineers with the leading AI development tools to build rock-solid security products for our customers. At Huntress, we work with low walls between disciplines because we believe good ideas are everywhere, and the best products come from teams that deeply understand our customers, experiment, and validate their products. Responsibilities: - Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively, helping your teams balance incremental customer value delivery with long-term product evolution - Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for our Identity solutions so they are scalable to accommodate rapid growth and increased user demand - Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and tune current use to be more efficient over time - Scale our current ITDR product while building a new team and features for ISPM - Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent - Hire and coach engineering managers to continue to build and enable great teams - Set clear expectations with your leaders and ICs, provide regular feedback, and conduct regular performance conversations to foster a high-performing engineering team - Identify opportunities and implement improvements to both the product and engineering practices and processes to optimize efficiency, quality, and time-to-market - Collaborate with Huntress’s Architecture, Product Management, and Threat Operations teams to integrate their expertise and needs into our products What You Bring To The Team: - 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership, building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment - 5+ years of experience at the director level or higher - Experience with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools - Experience and knowledge of best practices for scalable delivery of on-premise software agents - Experience developing, evolving, and maintaining high-volume, scalable solutions - Deep understanding of organizing engineering teams to deliver customer value iteratively and experience with various approaches such as hypothesis-driven development, Shape Up, Scrum, and Kanban - Skilled at hiring, building teams, leading, and coaching managers, and performance management - Demonstrated success working with architecture and product management leaders to develop and execute a shared product and technical vision - Experience in a fully remote environment 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. Huntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights. #BI-Remote

Role Description We're looking for a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure that powers a fast-moving, AI-native SaaS product used by real government customers with zero tolerance for downtime. This role sits at the intersection of reliability, developer experience, and scale. You will be the person who keeps the foundation solid while the product grows quickly. That means owning cloud infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and making sure the engineering team can ship with confidence. This is not a corporate IT role. It is a hands-on, high-ownership position at a small startup where your decisions have direct and visible impact. If you thrive in ambiguous environments, know how to prioritize without being told twice, and want your infrastructure work to matter to real users, this role is a strong fit. Qualifications - Hands-on experience with AWS across core services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, VPC, IAM, and similar) - Strong proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - Genuine, practical experience using AI tools in your engineering workflow, not just awareness of them - Prior experience working at a US-based small startup, with a real understanding of what ambiguity and limited resources look like in practice - Ability to operate independently, prioritize without hand-holding, and make sound decisions under uncertainty - Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical teammates Requirements - Own and manage AWS infrastructure across all environments - Write and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform - Ensure environments are reliable, secure, and cost-efficient - Design and implement infrastructure changes that support product growth - Build and maintain deployment pipelines that let engineers ship quickly and safely - Reduce friction in the development workflow without sacrificing reliability - Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate manual toil - Support engineers with clear runbooks and infrastructure documentation - Monitor system health, set up alerting, and respond to incidents - Implement and maintain security best practices across cloud infrastructure - Own backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness processes - Proactively identify and address reliability risks before they become incidents - Actively use AI tools to improve infrastructure workflows, automation, and debugging - Stay current on how AI is changing platform engineering practices and apply it in real work Benefits - You will be paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th) - Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy - Observance of Holidays per company guidelines - 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive - Work on a product that is actively used and trusted by government agencies - High ownership, low bureaucracy, and direct access to engineering leadership - Opportunity to shape infrastructure from the ground up at an early-stage company How to Apply Please include: - Your updated resume - A short 1 to 2 minute Loom video introducing yourself, describing a piece of infrastructure you owned end-to-end, and giving a concrete example of how you use AI in your engineering work Only candidates who submit a Loom video will be considered. If you enjoy owning infrastructure, solving hard reliability problems, and building the foundation that lets a product team move fast, this role offers real ownership, a lean environment, and work that directly affects a product people depend on. Application Process Overview Our comprehensive selection process ensures we find the right fit for both you and our clients: - Initial Application - Submit your application and complete our prequalifying questions - Video Introduction - Record a video introduction to showcase your communication skills and work experience - Role-Specific Assessment - Complete a homework assignment tailored to the position (if applicable) - Recruitment Interview - Initial screening with our talent team - Executive Interview - Meet with senior leadership to discuss role alignment - Client Interview - Final interview with the client team you'd be supporting - Background & Reference Check - Professional reference verification - Job Offer - Successful candidates receive a formal offer to join the team Each stage is designed to evaluate your fit for the role while giving you insights into our company culture and expectations. We'll keep you informed throughout the process and provide feedback at each step.