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Senior Software Engineer | Middleware

ExtraHop
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/15/2026
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

Join the Middleware team as a Senior 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)

The salary range for this position is 160,000 - 180,000 bonus benefits

About Extrahop

ExtraHop empowers enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats with the most comprehensive approach to network detection and response (NDR). Since 2007, the company has helped organizations across the globe extract real-time insights from their hybrid networks with the most in-depth network telemetry.

ExtraHop NDR uniquely integrates network threat detection, network performance management (NPM), intrusion detection (IDS), and packet forensics into a single console with 100GB sensors, real-time decryption, and cloud-scale machine learning - delivering complete network visibility, unmatched context for data-driven security decisions, and improved SOC productivity.

ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team. We are the only NDR vendor recognized as a leader by all major analyst firms including the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2023 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2024 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response.

Other Benefits

Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:

  • Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
  • Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
  • Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
  • FSA and Dependent Care Accounts EAP, where applicable
  • Educational Reimbursement
  • 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
  • Pet Insurance (US Only)
  • Parental Leave (US Only)
  • Hybrid and Remote Work Model

Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!

To learn more, visit www.extrahop.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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