Job Description

ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to help enterprises and organziations stay ahead of emerging threats with unmatched network visibility, context, and control.

Today’s attackers bypass traditional security defenses through identity-based entry, move invisibly across cloud, on-premise, and data center networks using encryption and trusted applications, and exploit and exit whenever they want. But all of that movement is visible on the network... if you can see it.

By combining the power of NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics in a single, integrated platform, ExtraHop can decrypt and unlock complete packet-level data at wire speed, analyze and correlate it across all your networks, applications, devices, and users with cloud-scale machine learning, and provide a single interface to the SOC to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time.

Position Summary

As a Software Engineer II, you’ll take on complex development challenges, contribute to architecture and design discussions, and help scale secure systems that power our core products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners in Engineering, Product, and Security to deliver customer-facing features that enable detection, visibility and automation at scale. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in collaborative environments, demonstrates initiative, and is driven to deliver impact through technical excellence and thoughtful design.

Our services and features are written primarily in Python, Golang, TypeScript and React with a focus on security, scalability, stability and type-first design. Our team develops public REST APIs, solves database scalability challenges, implements data migrations, and enables configuration management across our fleet of services.

The R(x) 360 Platform is built on AWS and GCP. It utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code and our services. This platform allows us to build native product and service integrations, first-class customer-facing workflows, and high throughput data pipelines. Our goal is to build a reliable platform for customer-facing services while encouraging healthy work-life balance via automated remediation and fault-tolerant designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain services for ExtraHop’s core Framework systems.


• Lead implementation of moderately complex components or features with minimal guidance.


• Participate actively in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical design discussions.


• Collaborate with product and architecture teams to translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.


• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production and performance issues, driving root-cause analysis and preventive measures.


• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives and the adoption of new technologies or frameworks.


• Mentor junior team members through code paring, reviews, and knowledge-sharing.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field, Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree requiring systematic/analytical thinking


• 2-4 years of professional experience developing production software


• Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language


• Proven ability to build and maintain distributed systems or cloud-based services (AWS, GCP preferred).


• Strong understand of REST APIs, microservice architecture, and CI/CD pipelines


• Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles


• Self-starter with strong analytical skills and ability to decompose complex problems into actionable engineering tasks


• Excellent collaborator and communicator with a growth mindset and customer-first orientation

The salary range for this position is 130,000-1450,000 + bonus + benefits 

ABOUT EXTRAHOP:

ExtraHop empowers enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats with the most comprehensive approach to network detection and response (NDR). Since 2007, the company has helped organizations across the globe extract real-time insights from their hybrid networks with the most in-depth network telemetry. 

ExtraHop NDR uniquely integrates network threat detection, network performance management (NPM), intrusion detection (IDS), and packet forensics into a single console with 100GB+ sensors, real-time decryption, and cloud-scale machine learning - delivering complete network visibility, unmatched context for data-driven security decisions, and improved SOC productivity.

ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team . We are the only NDR vendor recognized as a leader by all major analyst firms including the 2024 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2023 Forrester ® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC ® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2024 Gigamon ® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response.

OTHER BENEFITS: 

Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits


• Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time


• Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan


• FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable


• Educational Reimbursement


• 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable


• Pet Insurance (US Only)


• Parental Leave (US Only)


• Hybrid and Remote Work Model

Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!

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