Sr. Manager, Engineering | Middleware

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

At Extrahop we provide best-in-class network visibility and security to industries ranging from healthcare to payment processing. We don't just solve problems for our users, we help them rise above the noise of threats, alerts, and corporate gridlock. Our products enable organizations to harness the power of their wire data and achieve true security and exceptional performance.

The Middleware team is focused on enhancing, maintaining, and optimizing the core components of the system. 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. If you like leading a team building enterprise class systems software, this is the place for you.

As an Engineering Manager of this team, you will drive product initiatives and ensure that the team delivers a high quality product to customers. You will attract, develop and cultivate a high performance engineering team and environment to maintain our technical leadership in the industry.

You will guide the development team on responsibilities that include shepherding day-to-day design decisions, product roadmap progress, and long-term architectural and technology choices while encouraging healthy work-life balance. You listen to your employees and value their opinions. You believe that great things happen when engineering teams are empowered, have clear goals and a leader that removes roadblocks.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with Product Management to deliver on the product vision and feature priorities, maintaining a strong ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between scope, quality, supportability, performance, and time-to-market.

• Guide the team through the design and implementation of complex technical projects, ensuring sound architectural decisions and maintainable solutions.

• Collaborate closely with QA and Performance teams to ensure the product consistently meets the quality, stability, and scalability expectations of enterprise customers using proven experience driving innovation and improvement in performance and system reliability.

• Lead and support the team through the full product lifecycle, including post-release ownership; managing escalations, resolving issues, and maintaining transparent communication that arise during escalations/customer issues.

• Build and sustain a high-performing engineering team by fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and growth. Provide mentorship, define clear career goals, and create opportunities for skill development and advancement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology

• 6+ years experience, including at least 2 years in software engineering management

• Proven experience developing and supporting APIs and systems written in Python, Go or a comparable programming language

• Solid understanding of algorithms, optimizations, tradeoffs, industry best practices for applications running on a customer network

• Experience in software development life cycle using agile methodologies

• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions

• Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders

• Solid track record of learning technologies

• Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments while maintaining composure under pressure

• Consistent, reliable, and accountable in attendance and execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad understanding of TCP/IP and fundamentals of secure network communication and distributed computing (SSL, x509, authentication, kerberos, PKI)

• Understanding Linux/Windows OS subsystems and their interrelationships

The salary range for this position is 190,000 - 210,000 + 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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