Senior Software Engineer | Middleware

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. 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. Our goal is to build a reliable platform for customer-facing services while encouraging healthy work-life balance via automated remediation and fault-tolerant designs. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop and maintain services written in Go and Python powering ExtraHop’s products. • Lead and participate actively in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions. • Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to help enable the team • Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity and collaborative problem solving. • Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field • 7+ years of professional backend development experience • Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language • Experience in API development, PostgresQL database design or SQL query performance optimization • Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems • Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership. • Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in fast-paced, agile environments. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Django, FastAPI or another Python web framework • Experience with cloud services on AWS or Azure (EKS / RDS / S3 / SQS / EC2 / IAM /Lambdas) Compensation & Benefits: The salary range for this role is $160,000 – $180,000 per year, plus eligibility for an annual performance-based discretionary bonus and stock option grants. We offer a comprehensive benefits package i