Software Engineer III | Security

About the role

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

An ideal candidate will have strong software engineering, networking, and cybersecurity fundamentals. This position works with security researchers and developers, developing systems to make them more efficient and effective. You'll deliver impactful solutions that empower research and development, as well as working directly with network data to emulate adversary behavior.

ExtraHop offers an exciting, high-energy, and versatile environment in which people are encouraged and supported to collaborate on industry-leading technology and create a world-class engineering team while they develop and enrich their individual growth. And we're doing it with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and deep critical thinking.

ExtraHop R&D supports fully-flexible work options that include full-time onsite, hybrid, and fully remote working arrangements. Except for a few roles that require physical access, we believe in supporting you in making the choice that works best for you and makes the team successful.

Key Responsibilities

- Support Threat Research and Detection Engineering teams by providing tools and automation to accelerate Research & Development.

- Develop and support internal systems, including:

- Software deployment pipelines supporting continuous delivery

- Pipelines for ingestion of new network identifiers to enable fingerprinting of device, software, and cloud services

- Threat Intelligence acquisition and sharing

- On-demand threat research labs using modern Infrastructure-as-Code and Cloud-based technologies

- Continuous Testing and Validation pipelines

- Work with a collaborative, dedicated and seasoned team of engineers

- Actively participate in code review to ensure quality and uplevel other engineers

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering

- Excellent engineering chops

- Solid knowledge of Python

- Experience developing and deploying code for enterprise software applications with emphasis on code quality and maintainability