Senior Software Engineer | Middleware

Jobicy; Seattle (WA); Remoto; USD 160.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental, and vision coverage (

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Stock option grants

Descrizione del lavoro

ExtraHop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Middleware team. You will design and build backend services in Go and Python that power our customer-facing platform, focusing on security, scalability, and reliability.

The role involves technical leadership, code reviews, agile delivery, and mentorship, with AWS/GCP work, Terraform, and data migrations to support high-throughput systems and public REST APIs.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Go and Python.
• Experience in API development and PostgreSQL design or optimization.
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration in agile environments.

Mansioni

• Design, develop and maintain services written in Go and Python powering ExtraHop's products.
• Lead and participate in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
• Provide technical leadership to junior team members and mentorship.
• Act as a technical expert, fostering excellence and collaborative problem solving.
• Address technical debt proactively, continually improving the codebase and stack.

Conoscenze

Go

Python

API development

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL performance

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Strumenti

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Descrizione del lavoro

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If this sounds like a place you'd like to spend the next chapter of your career, we'd love to hear from you.**Location**This position is remote within the United States. Living in the Seattle, WA area is preferred but not required.**Position Summary**Join the Middleware team as a **Sr. Software Engineer** and help us build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. In this role you will work with the team to build a scalable and secure platform and build customer-facing features that enable security and engineering teams to stop threats in their place! This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is obsessed with customer success, passionate about simplification, and eager to dive deep into technology best practices.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.The R(x) 360 Platform is built on AWS and GCP. It utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code and our services. This platform allows us to build native product and service integrations, first-class customer-facing workflows, and high throughput data pipelines. 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