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Senior Software Engineer | Cloud
Ext*** · Raleigh, NC, United States
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Raleigh, NC, United States150,000-180,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
150,000-180,000 USD/yearly
Location
Raleigh, NC, United States
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Job summary
At ExtraHop, we're on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes.
Benefits
ABOUT EXTRAHOPOUR VALUESOur culture is rooted in our five Values.These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a teLead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impacAct with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in thFind a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency andInnovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully pusShare Success: We run together, we win together.We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best rEmployees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team.Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the followin
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 6–8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to independently design, build, and operate production-grade systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience building distributed services.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm).
- Strong experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM), including designing and operating systems in production.
- Demonstrated ownership of systems, including on-call, incident response, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Strong problem-solving
- Expertise in cloud security best practices, including identity, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience designing and scaling high-availability distributed systems with automated failover and self-healing capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
Responsibilities
- You will lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, influence system design across teams, and set the standard for engineering excellence within the cloud domain.
- You'll partner closely with engineering, security, and product teams to solve deeply technical challenges and evolve our cloud platform to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
- Own the architecture, development, and operation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant cloud services, with accountability for performance and reliability in production.
- Drive technical design and architectural decisions for distributed systems, influencing patterns, standards, and long-term platform evolution.
- Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with business and technical priorities.
- Build and scale cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), improving system resilience and efficiency.
- Advance cloud security and compliance practices, embedding secure design principles, IAM controls, and encryption into all layers of the platform.
- Improve system observability and operational excellence, implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
- Drive DevOps maturity, optimizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies to support rapid, reliable delivery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and security teams to define solutions and resolve complex system-level challenges.
- Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical direction, code reviews, and support for skill development while raising the bar for engineering quality.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new
Skills
Communication
Degrees
AssociateBachelorDegree
Work schedule
On-call
Industry
AutomotiveEducationEnergyInsuranceMediaPublic-sector
Company size
EnterpriseSmb