Senior Software Engineer | Cloud
Company: ExtraHop
Location: Schiller Park
Posted on: January 21, 2026
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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
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. • Work
cooperatively with others within the organization and other
cross-functional stakeholders. • Work well in fast-paced,
high-stress environments. • Has predictable, reliable attendance.
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).
Keywords: ExtraHop, Gary , Senior Software Engineer | Cloud, IT / Software / Systems , Schiller Park, Indiana
