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Sr. Software Engineer | Platform

ExtraHop
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

At ExtraHop, we're on a mission to help organizations achieve complete visibility, real-time threat detection, and proactive security through cutting-edge network detection and response (NDR) technology. Our NDR product is a market leader, providing our customers with the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster than ever before.

We’re proud of the work we do and the recognition we’ve received, including our recent Gartner Peer Insights award, which reflects the trust and satisfaction our customers have in our solutions.

If you're passionate about innovation, dedicated to protecting digital infrastructures, and ready to make a real impact, we invite you to join our team and help us shape the future of cybersecurity.

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 cryptography principles and applications
  • Experience with authentication / authorization technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, Kerberos, or LDAP / Active Directory
  • Proven aptitude for deeply understanding new network technologies, such as when adopting and debugging existing servers and client libraries to support new features
  • 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

  • Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with Docker containers and other build tools
  • Familiarity with Linux kernel subsystems or driver development
  • Experience developing, maintaining, or extensively customizing a Linux / Unix-based OS for cloud, server, or embedded use cases
  • 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 principles of enterprise server and storage hardware technologies
  • Working exposure to security certifications such as FIPS , FedRAMP, Common Criteria, SOC2, PCI DSS, or HIPAA
  • bonus benefits

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