Senior Software Engineer | Cloud Services

Company: ExtraHop
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 21, 2026

Job Description:

ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to help enterprises and organziations stay ahead of emerging threats with unmatched network visibility, context, and control. Today’s attackers bypass traditional security defenses through identity-based entry, move invisibly across cloud, on-premise, and data center networks using encryption and trusted applications, and exploit and exit whenever they want. But all of that movement is visible on the network if you can see it. By combining the power of NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics in a single, integrated platform, ExtraHop can decrypt and unlock complete packet-level data at wire speed, analyze and correlate it across all your networks, applications, devices, and users with cloud-scale machine learning, and provide a single interface to the SOC to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time. Position Summary 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. 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. Key Responsibilities • 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 assistance 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. Required Qualifications • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. • Experience around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, Terraform/Terragrunt). • 7 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 • Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders. • Work well in fast-paced, high-stress environments. • Has predictable, reliable attendance.

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