Principal Security Operations Center Analyst - Huntress

About Huntress

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 6M endpoints and 17M 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

As our Principal SOC Analyst in Australia, you're the most senior technical voice on the APAC SOC floor, working Monday to Friday. You'll take ownership of the hardest intrusions, turn what the floor sees every day into durable detection and product improvements, and raise the bar for every analyst around you. You'll lead by example as a cultural driver for the team, and you'll help build our Human Led Agentic SOC, where agents handle volume and humans own quality. You'll work closely with Product, Product Research, and Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting. We'll also support you in publishing your research through Huntress blogs, webinars, and conference talks.

Responsibilities

• Incident Investigation: Own complex, multi-host intrusions end-to-end, from triage through forensic timelining, root cause analysis, and remediation across endpoint, identity (Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace), and SIEM telemetry.
• Product & Research Partner: Act as the SOC's technical partner to Product, Product Research, and DE&TH. Turn recurring floor pain points into lasting detection, suppression, and product fixes rather than workarounds.
• Threat Research & Analysis: Perform advanced static and dynamic malware analysis, research emerging tradecraft, and publish findings through Huntress content.
• Agentic Workflows & Automation: Find repeatable investigation patterns and toil, then design, build, and maintain both automation and human-led agentic workflows with Workflow Engine owners, Product, and Engineering, with inline QC/QA built in from the start.
• Quality Engineering: Own quality on the floor: grade AI agent and analyst output, trace misses to their root cause and fix them at the source, and act as final technical reviewer on detection tuning, suppression decisions, and high-impact incident reports.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentoring across every level of the team: set investigation standards, run case reviews, ride-alongs, and knowledge sessions, advise the Senior Manager on SOC direction, and help assess candidates in the hiring process.
• Culture Champion: Model core values (Give a $hit, Warrior Spirit, and Outcome-Obsessed), maintain a low-ego, share-everything culture, and champion the "agents handle volume, humans own quality" mindset.
• Escalation Management: Handle threat-related escalations from SOC Support, writing clear explanations of complex activity and its business risk for technical and non-technical audiences.

What You Bring To The Team

• 6+ years in SOC, Incident Response, DFIR, or MDR roles, including leading multi-host intrusion investigations.
• Deep knowledge of attacker tradecraft across MITRE ATT&CK (credential access, lateral movement, persistence, defense evasion, living-off-the-land) and how to detect it.
• Deep forensic and investigation experience across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Strong cloud identity investigation and remediation experience in Microsoft 365 / Entra ID and Google Workspace.
• Advanced static and dynamic malware analysis, including extracting IOCs and determining capability and intent.
• Strong enterprise Windows administration (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, domain trusts) and core networking knowledge.
• Strong hands-on AI skills: daily use of tools such as Claude and Codex for analysis, research, and building automation/agentic workflows (Python, PowerShell, or similar), with sound judgment about validating output.
• Understanding of inline quality delivery: building QC/QA into workflows as they run (quality gates, statistical sampling, drift detection, regression testing) rather than relying on after-the-fact review.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring: experience raising team standards and clearly explaining complex findings verbally and in writing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Published research, blogs, conference talks, or open-source security tooling.
• Detection engineering experience: writing and tuning detections and SIEM queries.
• Investigation experience in other cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Previous MSP/MSSP/MDR experience and familiarity with RMM tools.

What We Offer

• Fully remote work setup.
• At least one annual trip to the US for Summer Summit, plus local events in Australia.
• New starter home office set up reimbursement ($800 AUD).
• Monthly digital allowance for personal phone and internet costs ($185 AUD).
• Monthly home office tech stipend to upgrade or replace equipment ($40 AUD).
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers.
• 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.