Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Middleware team at ExtraHop as a Sr. Software Engineer to build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. You will work with the team to build a scalable and secure platform and develop customer-facing features to help security and engineering teams stop threats. This role requires expertise in Python, Golang, TypeScript, and React, focusing on security, scalability, stability, and type-first design. The team develops public REST APIs, solves database scalability challenges, implements data migrations, and enables configuration management. The platform is built on AWS and GCP, utilizing Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code. The goal is to build a reliable platform for customer-facing services while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 7+ years of professional backend development experience
• Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language
• Experience in API development, PostgresQL database design or SQL query performance optimization
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in fast-paced, agile environments

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain services written in Go and Python powering ExtraHop’s products
• Lead and participate actively in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions
• Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to help enable the team
• Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity and collaborative problem solving
• Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Django, FastAPI or another Python web framework
• Experience with cloud services on AWS or Azure (EKS / RDS / S3 / SQS / EC2 / IAM)
• Experience around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, and Terraform)

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