Senior Software Engineer | Security

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At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.

Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Position Summary

We are ExtraHop. We're on a mission to provide security teams with the intelligence they need to confront and stop advanced threats like supply chain attacks, zero day exploits, and ransomware attacks. Cyber attackers still have the advantage. We’re taking it back with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a sense of humor. Are you ready to help us reclaim the upper hand

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer | Security with a strong software and detection engineering background to join our Detection Engineering (DE) team and help expand ExtraHop’s industry leading detection coverage.

An ideal candidate will have strong software engineering, networking, and cybersecurity fundamentals. This position works closely with security researchers and data scientists to develop cutting edge network threat detections that leverage rule-based network observations as well as ML-powered anomaly detections.

As a Senior Software Engineer | Security, you will be working as part of a team dedicated to delivering industry leading detection capabilities. You will be expected to work with a high level of autonomy, to mentor other team members, and to demonstrate a high level of ownership of your areas of responsibility.

ExtraHop offers an exciting, high-energy, and versatile environment in which people are encouraged and supported to collaborate on industry-leading technology and create a world-class engineering team while they develop and enrich their individual growth. And we're doing it with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and deep critical thinking.

ExtraHop R&D supports fully-flexible work options that include full-time onsite, hybrid, and fully remote working arrangements. Except for a few roles that require physical access, we believe in supporting you in making the choice that works best for you and makes the team successful.

Key Responsibilities

• Detection Engineering:

• Develop network threat detectors by leveraging rule-based and ML-based detection strategies
• Reproduce attacks in a lab environment using live tools and recorded PCAP traffic, and perform threat hunts on aggregated log data, in order to identify malicious behaviors and develop techniques to detect them
• Collaborate with Threat Research and Data Science teams to gain insight on attacker techniques and take advantage of the latest machine learning models to detect attacker behavior
• Work with infrastructure teams to help develop and improve tools that Detection Engineering and Threat Research teams use in developing and testing detections.

• Mentorship:

• Mentor and coach other Security Engineers regarding detector development and network threats
• Actively participate in code review to ensure quality and uplevel other engineers

Required Qualifications

• Excellent engineering chops
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Solid knowledge of Javascript and Python
• In-depth knowledge of networking fundamentals, including the OSI model and excellent working knowledge of the key protocols from Layer 2 through Layer 7
• Experience developing solutions using cloud-native technologies
• Self-starter with a strong problem-solving track record and ability to grow and learn
• Excellent teammate and collaborator who can iterate on problems quickly.
• Proficient at communication in both spoken and written forms, including documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with network packet-level data using tools like Wireshark, tshark, tcpdump, tcprewrite, and Scapy to directly interact with this data.
• Knowledge of cloud and on-premise cybersecurity threat models - attacker behavior, tools, techniques, and practices. Ability to translate this knowledge into user-facing threat detections.

The salary for this role is between $150,000 - $180,000 per year + bonus

ABOUT EXTRAHOP

ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.

This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.

OUR VALUES

Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.

Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.

Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.

Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.

Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.

Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.

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!

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