Senior Software Engineer | Cloud Services

Position Summary

The mission of the Cloud team is to create a fault-resilient highly available customer-centric platform. In this role you will work with the team to build a large scalable secure platform and services using cutting-edge technologies. If you are obsessed with customer success passionate about simplification and excited to dive deep into technology best practices this will be a rewarding opportunity.

ExtraHop Cloud Infrastructure which hosts ExtraHop’s analytics and anomaly detection services is built on AWS and Kubernetes. It is fully automated using Terraform and Ansible with continuous integration testing and several releases each week. Our cloud services and platform are developed primarily in Go with a focus on security scalability and stability. 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

• Lead the architect design development and deployment of cloud-based systems and services in an AWS environment ensuring they meet performance scalability and security requirements.

• Architect implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.

• Provide assistance and mentorship to software engineering teams guiding them in best practices for cloud development microservices architecture and modern software engineering techniques.

• Conduct in-depth analysis of existing cloud architecture identifying areas for improvement optimization and cost reduction.

• Stay current with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices related to cloud services security scalability and infrastructure as code.

• Collaborate closely and effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers architects and quality assurance engineers to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.

• Participate in code reviews design discussions and provide insightful feedback to team members to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.

• Utilize cybersecurity best practices to enhance the security posture of our cloud infrastructure applications and data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

• Experience around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer Vault Terraform/Terragrunt).

• 7 or more years of hands-on software development experience with a significant focus on cloud services infrastructure Terraform scalability and availability.

• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex scalable highly available and secure cloud architectures.

• Expert in programming languages such as Go (Golang) Python and scripting languages infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Extensive expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) including services such as EC2 Lambda S3 RDS VPC ECS/EKS IAM etc.

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

• In-depth knowledge of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and strategies for achieving scalability and availability.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices and the ability to implement security measures in cloud environments is a plus

• Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders.

• Work well in fast-paced high-stress environments.

• Has predictable reliable attendance.

The salary range for this position is $160000 - 180000 + bonus + benefits