$160,000 – $180,000
Listed on ExtraHop Networks’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
ExtraHop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the design, development, and operation of secure, scalable cloud services that power their cybersecurity platform. You'll drive architectural decisions for distributed systems, lead complex technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while working across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.
Our summary, not ExtraHop Networks’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Stack (ELK)
- Go
- Grafana
- HashiCorp Consul
- HashiCorp Vault
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- Packer
- Prometheus
- Python
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- 6–8+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
- Ability to independently design, build, and operate production-grade systems at scale
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages for building distributed services
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Helm
- Strong experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, and IAM in production environments
- Demonstrated ownership of systems including on-call responsibilities and incident response
- Strong problem-solving skills for navigating complex technical challenges
- Effective communication and ability to influence technical decisions across teams
- U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee/asylum grantee
Nice to have
- Expertise in cloud security best practices including identity, encryption, and compliance frameworks
- Experience designing and scaling high-availability distributed systems with automated failover and self-healing capabilities
- Strong knowledge of observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices
- Familiarity with HashiCorp ecosystem tools such as Vault, Consul, and Packer
- Experience contributing to or defining engineering standards, patterns, or platform strategy