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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. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.
Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you'd like to spend the next chapter of your career, we'd love to hear from you.
Position Summary
ExtraHop is at the forefront of innovation in the cybersecurity space, delivering cutting-edge Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions that empower organizations to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyber risks in real time.
Join ExtraHop as a Software Engineer III and help us build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. In this role you will work as part of a collaborative engineering team to build a scalable and secure platform and develop customer-facing AI/ML features that enable security teams to stop threats in their tracks. This is a rewarding opportunity for an engineer who is obsessed with customer success, passionate about building reliable software, and learning new technologies that contribute to AI/ML-powered security capabilities in production systems.
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 and utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code across our services and high-throughput data pipelines.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain software components that support AI/ML models, agentic processes, and data pipelines.
• Contribute to the monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of algorithms used in model-based behavioral detectors.
• Participate in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, data scientists, and threat researchers to integrate AI/ML features into the broader product architecture.
• Implement well-scoped features and technical improvements with limited guidance from senior team members.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to engineering standards and best practices.
• Help identify and address technical debt to continually improve our codebase and technical stack.
• Stay current on the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and technologies to contribute to product enhancements.
• Assist in the documentation of product features, technical specifications, and engineering guides.
• Support a culture of curiosity, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in backend, security, or AI/ML related systems.
• Solid knowledge of Python, Go, or an equivalent programming language, with strong general programming fundamentals.
• Familiarity with machine learning, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Experience contributing to production AI/ML systems, including data pipelines, model deployment, inference monitoring, or experiment tracking.
• Familiarity with building distributed, highly available cloud based systems, preferably on AWS.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development practices.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and the ability to take ownership and deliver well-defined technical tasks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently with limited guidance in a fast-paced team environment.
• Desire to grow in the intersection of software engineering, cybersecurity, and AI/Machine Learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, MLflow, LangChain, or DSPy.
• Experience with cloud services on AWS or Azure (EKS / RDS / S3 / SQS / EC2 / IAM).
• Experience with infrastructure as a software tooling, such as HashiCorp (Packer, Vault, Terraform).
• Experience in API development, PostgreSQL database design, or SQL query performance optimization.
• Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity or NDR environments.
• Knowledge of tools and frameworks commonly used in network detection and response.
• Understanding of threat detection, intrusion prevention, and incident response strategies.

The salary range for this role is $145,000 - $160,000 + bonus + benefits
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.
This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.
OUR VALUES
Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.
Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.
Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.
Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.
Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.
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!
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