Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Kubernetes & Security

extrahopnetworks; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Education reimbursement

Retirement benefits

Parental leave

Pet insurance

Job summary

extrahopnetworks is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud services that power our cybersecurity products.

You will own architecture and production operations, guide platform evolution, and lead end-to-end initiatives while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product, security, and engineering teams. Hybrid or remote work options are available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 6–8+ years of software engineering with cloud infra and distributed systems.
• Ability to design, build, and operate production systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Go or Python and strong Kubernetes/Infrastructure-as-Code skills.
• Experience with AWS EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM and on-call operations.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, development, and production operation of secure cloud services.
• Influence distributed systems design and guide long-term platform evolution.
• Lead end-to-end technical projects from design through launch.
• Build and operate cloud infra with Kubernetes and IaC tools for reliability.
• Strengthen security controls, identity, encryption, monitoring, and incident response.
• Improve pipelines and deployment practices; mentor engineers via code reviews.

Skills

Go

Python

AWS

Cloud infra

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM)

Job description

extrahopnetworks is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud services that power our cybersecurity products.

You will own architecture and production operations, guide platform evolution, and lead end-to-end initiatives while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product, security, and engineering teams. Hybrid or remote work options are available.