Senior Framework Engineer - High-Performance C/C++ Systems

ExtraHop Networks, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote Work Model

Health, Dental, Vision Benefits

Educational Reimbursement

Job summary

ExtraHop Networks, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer III to drive architectural decisions and lead complex engineering initiatives within the Framework team.

You will deliver resilient, scalable, and secure systems powering core ExtraHop products. You will collaborate with principal engineers and cross-functional partners to design and optimize high-performance C/C++ services, focusing on protocol parsing, metrics publishing, and time-series storage with emphasis on performance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM/CS or related field
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in C and C++
• Experience developing on Linux systems with multi-threading and IPC
• Proven ability to build and maintain performance-critical systems
• Strong debugging skills (gdb, coredumps) and networking knowledge

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance services for ExtraHop's Framework systems with limited guidance
• Work across networking layers to implement and enhance protocol support
• Participate in technical design discussions and write clear technical docs
• Engage in agile processes with a strong emphasis on code quality and test coverage
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and cloud teams to define roadmaps
• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production and performance issues
• Contribute to platform modernization and adoption of new technologies
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve observability and reliability

Skills

C and C++

Linux systems

Networking fundamentals

Debugging with GDB

Multi-threading

High-performance systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM/CS or related field

Tools

GDB

Performance tools

Job description

ExtraHop Networks, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer III to drive architectural decisions and lead complex engineering initiatives within the Framework team.

You will deliver resilient, scalable, and secure systems powering core ExtraHop products. You will collaborate with principal engineers and cross-functional partners to design and optimize high-performance C/C++ services, focusing on protocol parsing, metrics publishing, and time-series storage with emphasis on performance and