Senior Software Engineer, Cloud
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ExtraHopCybersecurity
Remote, Seattle, WA or Raleigh, NCFull-TimeSenior
Salary150,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6–8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonKubernetesGoTerraformHelmDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 6–8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to independently design, build, and operate production-grade systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience building distributed services.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm).
- Strong experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM), including designing and operating systems in production.
- Demonstrated ownership of systems, including on-call, incident response, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguous, complex technical challenges.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, development, and operation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant cloud services, with accountability for performance and reliability in production.
- Drive technical design and architectural decisions for distributed systems, influencing patterns, standards, and long-term platform evolution.
- Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with business and technical priorities.
- Build and scale cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), improving system resilience and efficiency.
- Advance cloud security and compliance practices, embedding secure design principles, IAM controls, and encryption into all layers of the platform.
- Improve system observability and operational excellence, implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
- Drive DevOps maturity, optimizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies to support rapid, reliable delivery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and security teams to define solutions and resolve complex system-level challenges.
- Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical direction, code reviews, and support for skill development while raising the bar for engineering quality.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies, making pragmatic decisions that improve system performance, scalability, and developer productivity.
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