Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the design and development of hardware to support NDR for next-generation networks

• Work closely with hardware suppliers and partners to understand and influence roadmaps of servers/systems, key components and technologies, and adjacent products such as switches and span aggregators

• Be the technical SME for the leading edge of hardware innovation as it relates to NDR

• Collaborate with product management to define customer requirements for hardware products, accounting for feasibility, development/delivery timelines, and maintainability/supportability

• Collaborate with other architects and application-level software development teams to define software’s requirements for hardware performance and functionality

• Collaborate with other architects and platform-level software development teams to define and plan software changes to support new hardware features/technologies/products

• Support building out a team dedicated to delivering and supporting hardware products

• Promote a results driven culture, by promoting a culture of collaboration, trust, transparency, and productivity

Required Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of the hardware necessary to support NDR at the largest enterprise scale

• Deep experience designing and building enterprise-scale networking hardware products, including collaborating with component vendors and system OEMs/ODMs

• Experience making software highly performant on enterprise-scale hardware

• Deep familiarity with relevant features, performance characteristics, and high-level roadmaps of hardware components and technologies such as x86/ARM server CPUs, PCIe, Ethernet NICs/DPUs/switches, and SSDs/HDDs

• Working knowledge of C/C++

• Working knowledge of Linux

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with critical hardware supply chain logistics

• Familiarity with AI-related hardware including GPUs and RDMA

• Familiarity with hardware-relevant characteristics of high-performance network stacks/frameworks such as the Linux kernel, DPDK, and Nvidia DOCA

• Familiarity with applications of FPGAs in high-performance networking

The salary range for this position is 190,000 - 220,000 + benefits + bonus

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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