Senior Software Engineer (Middleware)

Join ExtraHop's Middleware team as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will help build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. You will work with a team to develop scalable and secure services, lead agile development processes, and provide technical leadership to junior team members. The position offers a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development support, and flexible work options.

• Design, develop, and maintain services written in Go and Python that power 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.

• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Experience in API development, PostgresQL database design or SQL query performance optimization
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in fast-paced, agile environments
• Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership
• Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language
• 7+ years of professional backend development experience
• 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)