At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.
Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Position Summary
ExtraHop is at the forefront of innovation in the cybersecurity space, delivering cutting-edge Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions that empower organizations to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyber risks in real time.
Join ExtraHop as a Sr. Software Engineer and help us build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. In this role you will work with the team to build a scalable and secure platform and develop customer-facing features that enable security and engineering teams to stop threats in their tracks. This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is obsessed with customer success, passionate about simplification, and eager to dive deep into technology best practices.
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 and utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code across our services and high-throughput data pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain AI/ML models and pipelines powering ExtraHop's products.
- Monitor, evaluate, refine, and optimize algorithms to improve accuracy and reduce false positives for model-based behavioral detectors.
- Participate in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that AI/ML features are integrated seamlessly into the broader product architecture.
- Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to enable the broader team.
- Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and collaborative problem solving.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices.
- Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack.
- Stay current on the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and technologies to contribute to product enhancements.
- Assist in the documentation of product features, technical specifications, and engineering guides.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional backend development experience with at least two years at a senior or higher level.
- Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language, with strong general programming fundamentals.
- Experience in machine learning, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience building or operating production AI/ML systems, including model lifecycle management, data/training pipelines, and monitoring.
- Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS; experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development practices.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently and in fast-paced team environments.
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 with infrastructure as a software tooling, such as HashiCorp (Packer, Vault, Terraform).
- Experience in API development, PostgreSQL database design, or SQL query performance optimization.
- Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity or NDR environments.
- Knowledge of tools and frameworks commonly used in network detection and response.
- Understanding of threat detection, intrusion prevention, and incident response strategies.
The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $180,000 + bonus + benefits
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.
This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.
OUR VALUES
Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.
Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.
Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.
Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.
Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.
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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