Senior Software Engineer, Platform - ExtraHop

ExtraHop is on a mission to protect and propagate trust by revealing the cybertruth: the truth about the attackers already inside an organization’s network, the truth about what they’re doing, and how to stop them at top speed. We partner with every customer, every day, to reveal it. Are you ready to join us?

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop features and components and assist in leading junior team members, working at the foundation level of our appliances and cloud offerings.

Our team designs and develops new features and builds fundamental tools and structures to enable creation of world-class security applications on physical, virtual, and cloud appliances. We develop, support, and secure the operating system, kernel, drivers, installation/upgrade process, and administrative and connectivity features. We work closely with feature owners on other teams to design and implement core support components.

We offer an engaging and innovative environment in which people are encouraged and supported to collaborate on industry-leading technology and create a world-class engineering team, while they develop and enrich their individual growth.We believe in actively investing in a diverse engineering organization and are seeking highly talented software engineers from all backgrounds, who bring in their own perspectives, influences, and experiences. Are you as passionate as we are about positive culture and amazing technology? If so, we can’t wait to chat with you.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintain a high standard for the team in code reviews

• Design and own development of features, collaborating inside the team and across the architecture team, product management teams, and other stakeholders as necessary 

• Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to help enable the team

• Occasionally expand into other areas of engineering — we encourage and support full-stack flexibility

• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA, and other engineering teams to define requirements, develop architecture, and implement new features

• Participate in agile development methodologies

• Demonstrate traits in line with our company values (have a sense of humor, be nice to each other, think about customers first, build cool stuff)

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years working experience designing and implementing backend infrastructure components

• Fluent in back-end languages such as Python, Golang, Rust, or C/C++

• Experience with basic CPU, network, or storage performance analysis and tuning on Linux

• Familiarity with navigating typical Linux server environments, including common tools, package management, and services

• Experience leading or mentoring other team members and  maintaining strong software engineering practices 

• Strong communication skills

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience programming with sockets, using HTTP/TLS client libraries, or configuring servers like Apache or nginx

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Experience with Docker containers and other build tools

• Experience developing, maintaining, or extensively customizing a Linux/Unix-based OS for cloud, server, or embedded use cases

• Familiarity with Linux kernel subsystems or driver development

• Experience with monitoring or analytics tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, QuickSight, or CloudWatch

• Basic experience using and/or administering an RDBMS such as PostgreSQL or MySQL

• Familiarity with cryptography principles and applications

• Experience with authentication/authorization technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, Kerberos, or LDAP/Active Directory

• Familiarity with principles of enterprise server and storage hardware technologies

• Working exposure to security certifications such as FIPS 140, FedRAMP, Common Criteria, SOC2, PCI DSS, or HIPAA

$136,600 - $180,310 + benefits