Senior Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all parts of the detection lifecycle by creating new rules, testing them before deployment, monitoring efficacy, and tuning, promoting, or retiring rules based on their performance.
• Develop rules across a variety of Huntress products and operating systems such as: Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• Manage any DE&TH requests raised internally or escalated from our partners.
• Undertake hypothesis-driven hunts across Huntress telemetry, prioritising techniques and tradecraft that may evade high-fidelity detections and initial SOC review.
• Consume threat intelligence and translate IOCs, TTPs, and internal findings into new or refined detections through Git-based workflows.
• Build and refine hunting dashboards or queries required to surface potential intrusions.
• Review ambiguous signs of attacker activity across Huntress products, and surface likely intrusions that require deeper investigation.
• Investigate or escalate likely intrusions identified to ensure partners receive clear incident reports with accurate advice.
• Contribute findings to community-driven projects and create Huntress content such as blogs, social posts, videos, podcasts, and webinars.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to prototype queries, enrich analysis, and develop a scaffolding for detection rules, ensuring you apply sound judgment to validate the AI output. We expect everyone at Huntress to be able to use AI as a real part of how they work, not occasionally, but genuinely embedded in core workflows.
• What You Bring To The Team:
• 2+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, SOC, MDR, or incident response.
• Intermediate knowledge of Windows internals.
• Working knowledge of Linux, macOS, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Google Workspace.
• Experience developing, testing, tuning, and documenting detections or analytics from threat intelligence, IOCs, hypotheses, or real-world investigations.
• Ability to communicate findings through clear written reports.
• Strong familiarity with detection languages such as Sigma, Suricata, Snort, or YARA, and query languages such as KQL, EQL, ES|QL, or Splunk SPL.
• A sound understanding of adversary tradecraft, including techniques used for persistence, privilege escalation, defense impairment, lateral movement, discovery, and collection on a system.
• A sound understanding of the roles different threat actors play and their associated goals, such as: initial access brokers, ransomware affiliates, and state-sponsored entities.
• Ability to orchestrate reusable AI workflows that improve threat hunting, detection development, or analysis, and can verify AI-generated outputs before they reach production environments.
• Bonus points for:
• Intermediate knowledge of Linux and MacOS internals.
• Hands-on experience using tools to remotely discover evidence of compromise such as OSquery, Velociraptor, and EDR/MDR/XDR platforms.
• Previous use of forensic tooling such as Eric Zimmerman's EZ Tools, RegRipper, Hayabusa, or Chainsaw to analyze endpoint artifacts.
• Intermediate malware analysis skills.
• What We Offer:
• Fully remote work
• At least one annual trip to the US for Summer Summit, with additional local events in Australia!
• New starter home office set up reimbursement ($800 AUD)
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers
• Monthly digital allowance for personal phone and internet costs ($185 AUD)
• Monthly home office tech stipend to upgrade or replace equipment ($40 AUD)
• Subsidised private health insurance through our preferred provider
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• 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.
• People from all culturally diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples, are encouraged to apply.
• 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 [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
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