Senior OR Principal Software Engineer | Cloud - Remote USA
ExtraHop
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Posted:
August 11, 2023
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Remote
About the position
ExtraHop is seeking a Senior or Principal Software Engineer to join their team. The role involves working on the Cloud team to build a large, scalable, and secure platform and services using cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate should be passionate about customer success, simplification, and technology best practices. ExtraHop values diversity and is looking for talented software engineers from all backgrounds. The company offers a global and diverse user base, a positive culture, and a focus on security, scalability, and stability in their cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architect, design, development, and deployment of cloud-based systems and services in an AWS environment, ensuring they meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
- Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineering teams, guiding them in best practices for cloud development, microservices architecture, and modern software engineering techniques.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of existing cloud architecture, identifying areas for improvement, optimization, and cost reduction.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to cloud services, security, scalability, and infrastructure as code.
- Collaborate closely and effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, architects, and quality assurance engineers to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and provide insightful feedback to team members to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Utilize cybersecurity best practices to enhance the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, applications, and data.
Requirements
- Lead the architect, design, development, and deployment of cloud-based systems and services in an AWS environment, ensuring they meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
- Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineering teams, guiding them in best practices for cloud development, microservices architecture, and modern software engineering techniques.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of existing cloud architecture, identifying areas for improvement, optimization, and cost reduction.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to cloud services, security, scalability, and infrastructure as code.
- Collaborate closely and effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, architects, and quality assurance engineers to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and provide insightful feedback to team members to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Utilize cybersecurity best practices to enhance the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, applications, and data.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience around containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, Terraform/Terragrunt).
- 8-10 or more years of hands-on software development experience, with a significant focus on cloud services, infrastructure, Terraform, scalability, and availability.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing complex, scalable, highly available, and secure cloud architectures.
- Expert in programming languages such as Go (Golang), Python, and scripting languages, infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Extensive expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS/EKS, IAM etc.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- In-depth knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and strategies for achieving scalability and availability.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices and the ability to implement security measures in cloud environments is a plus.
- Previous experience in a technical lead or mentorship role is a plus.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Honor System PTO and 9 Holidays (US only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
- Non-Commissioned positions are eligible to participate in 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