Senior OR Principal Software Engineer | Cloud - Remote USA

We’re looking for a Senior OR Principal Software Engineer interested in joining ExtraHop!

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.

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.

We have a global and diverse user base—we believe in actively investing in a diverse engineering organization. We are seeking highly talented software engineers from all backgrounds, who offer dynamic perspectives, influences, and experiences. Are you as passionate as we are about positive culture and amazing technology? If you are, we can't wait to chat with you.

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.

Requirements

• 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 technical leadership 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.

Desired skills

• 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).
• 8-10 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
• Previous experience in a technical lead or mentorship role is a plus.

All R&D Employees will be required to attend 2 mandatory in-person events every year of approx. 4 days duration.

$149,000- $198,000 + benefits+ options

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