Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

ExtraHop · USA

Company

ExtraHop

Location

USA

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for the design and development of hardware to support NDR for next-generation networks

  • Work closely with hardware suppliers and partners to understand and influence roadmaps of servers/systems key components and technologies and adjacent products such as switches and span aggregators

  • Be the technical SME for the leading edge of hardware innovation as it relates to NDR

  • Collaborate with product management to define customer requirements for hardware products accounting for feasibility development/delivery timelines and maintainability/supportability

  • Collaborate with other architects and application-level software development teams to define software’s requirements for hardware performance and functionality

  • Collaborate with other architects and platform-level software development teams to define and plan software changes to support new hardware features/technologies/products

  • Support building out a team dedicated to delivering and supporting hardware products

  • Promote a results driven culture by promoting a culture of collaboration trust transparency and productivity

Required Qualifications

  • Expert-level knowledge and understanding of the hardware necessary to support NDR at the largest enterprise scale

  • Deep experience designing and building enterprise-scale networking hardware products including collaborating with component vendors and system OEMs/ODMs

  • Experience making software highly performant on enterprise-scale hardware

  • Deep familiarity with relevant features performance characteristics and high-level roadmaps of hardware components and technologies such as x86/ARM server CPUs PCIe Ethernet NICs/DPUs/switches and SSDs/HDDs

  • Working knowledge of C/C++

  • Working knowledge of Linux

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with critical hardware supply chain logistics

  • Familiarity with AI-related hardware including GPUs and RDMA

  • Familiarity with hardware-relevant characteristics of high-performance network stacks/frameworks such as the Linux kernel DPDK and Nvidia DOCA

  • Familiarity with applications of FPGAs in high-performance networking

The salary range for this role is between $190000 - $220000 per year + bonus + benefits

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Date Posted

12/23/2025

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