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 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.

Reports to: Manager, Security Operations Center

Location: Remote Australia

Compensation Range: $180,000 to $215,000 AUD base plus bonus and equity.

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

Own complex, multi-host intrusions end to end, from triage through forensic timelining, root cause and remediation, across endpoint, identity (Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace) and SIEM telemetry
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
Perform advanced static and dynamic malware analysis, research emerging tradecraft, and publish findings through Huntress content
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
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
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
Be a cultural driver for the team: model Give a $hit, Warrior Spirit and Outcome-Obsessed, keep a low-ego, share-everything team culture, and champion the “agents handle volume, humans own quality” mindset
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