Senior Software Engineer | Cloud
Position Summary
Join the Cloud Services team 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 build customer-facing features that enable security and engineering teams to stop threats in their place! 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. It utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code and our services. This platform allows us to build native product and service integrations, first-class customer-facing workflows, and high throughput data pipelines. 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
Design, develop and maintain services written in Go and Python powering ExtraHop’s products.
Lead and participate actively in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to help enable the team
Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity and collaborative problem solving.
Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
7+ years of professional backend development experience
Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language
Experience in API development, PostgresQL database design or SQL query performance optimization
Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in fast-paced, agile 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 around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, and Terraform).
The salary for this role is 150,000 - 180,000 + bonus + benefits
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Senior Software Engineer | Cloud
Position Summary
Join the Cloud Services team 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 build customer-facing features that enable security and engineering teams to stop threats in their place! 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. It utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code and our services. This platform allows us to build native product and service integrations, first-class customer-facing workflows, and high throughput data pipelines. 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
Design, develop and maintain services written in Go and Python powering ExtraHop’s products.
Lead and participate actively in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to help enable the team
Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity and collaborative problem solving.
Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
7+ years of professional backend development experience
Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language
Experience in API development, PostgresQL database design or SQL query performance optimization
Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in fast-paced, agile 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 around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, and Terraform).
The salary for this role is 150,000 - 180,000 + bonus + benefits
LI-KI1 #LI-REMOTE