Principal Engineering Manager

ExtraHop offers an exciting high-energy and versatile environment in which people are encouraged and supported to collaborate on industry-leading technology and create a world-class engineering team while they develop and enrich their individual growth. And we're doing it with creativity intellectual curiosity and deep critical thinking.

As a Principal Engineering Manager you will drive product initiatives and ensure the team delivers a great product to customers. You will attract develop and cultivate a great engineering team and environment to maintain our technical leadership in the industry.

ExtraHop R&D supports flexible work options including full-time onsite hybrid and remote work arrangements. We believe in helping you make the best choice for you and making the team successful.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the product management team to deliver on the product vision and feature priorities.

• Identify patterns roadblocks and issues while they are emerging provide solutions and ensure the development process moves forward swiftly.

• Provide tradeoff recommendations to Engineering leadership on navigating resources risks and sustainability for your product area.

• Guide the development team on responsibilities including shepherding day-to-day design decisions and product roadmap progress while encouraging healthy work-life balance.

• Shepherd the team on long-term architectural choices and setting technical direction for multiple teams that own software to meet larger business or organizational goals.

Required Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent in CS or a related Engineering Field

• 8-10 years experience in software engineering management including knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices (Agile/DevOps)

• Experience in coaching line managers

• Strong track record of getting things done

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills

• Experience leading by influence

Preferred Qualifications

• Managed teams that have delivered customer-facing features through design architecture and development

• Knowledge of networking networking protocols and cyber security

• Experience in API development and database design (PostgresSQL)

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

• Experience with building and scaling distributed highly available systems