Systems Engineer
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?
ExtraHop R&D supports fully-flexible work options that includes full time onsite, hybrid, and fully remote working arrangements. With the exception of 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.
We’re looking for Systems Engineers interested in building and operating infrastructure for delivering great software and heavy duty hardware appliances.
We offer an engaging and innovative 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 a sense of humor.
We believe in actively investing in a diverse engineering organization. We are seeking highly talented systems engineers from all backgrounds, who bring in their own perspectives, influences, and experiences. Are you as passionate as we are about positive culture and amazing technology? If so, we can’t wait to chat with you.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure 24x7 availability and responsiveness of services and infrastructure - including networking infrastructure, cloud environments, security tools, web applications, and third party tools.
- Participate in on-call rotation for production services.
- Work closely with software, quality, and release engineers to ensure software is built, tested, and deployed correctly and consistently.
- Manage all engineering code repositories, including branching, backup, access and creation.
- Install, maintain, and manage hardware and networking infrastructure for the software engineering team.
- Validate and research future hardware product decisions
Required Qualifications
- Experience with the Linux ecosystem and enterprise hardware.
- Experience with one or more virtualization infrastructures, e.g. VMware, KVM.
- Knowledge of networking and application protocols, e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP, TLS/SSL.
- Direct experience with Git version control systems and hosting platforms (GitLab, GitHub).
- Exposure to infrastructure and configuration management tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Security-oriented mindset in all operational matters.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Scripting skills on Unix/Linux platforms; Python and bash preferred.
- History of working with CI/CD build pipelines.
- Cloud virtualization platform experience, such as AWS EC2/EKS, Azure, or GCE/GKE.
- Practical knowledge of building and using containers e.g Docker, containerd.
- Experience working with container orchestration such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm
- Experience building, upgrading troubleshooting servers and hardware components.
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
Cyberattackers have the advantage. ExtraHop is on a mission to help you take it back with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised. Our dynamic cyber defense platform, Reveal(x) 360, helps organizations detect and respond to advanced threats––before they compromise business operations. We apply cloud-scale AI to petabytes of traffic per day, performing line-rate decryption and behavioral analysis across all infrastructure, workloads, and data-in-flight. With complete visibility from ExtraHop, enterprises can detect malicious behavior, hunt advanced threats, and forensically investigate any incident with confidence.
ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team. In 2020, we’ve already been named a “Best Place to Work” by Inc., Computerworld, BuiltIn Seattle and Seattle Business Magazine, and we’ve been named to Wealthfront’s Career-Launching Companies list for the last four years. Forbes named ExtraHop to its 2020 AI 50 List, as well as the list of “20 Best Cybersecurity Startups to Watch.” In 2019 and 2020, JMP Securities put ExtraHop on its Elite 80 List as one of the most strategically positioned private companies in the cybersecurity industry. SC Media has named ExtraHop an Industry Innovator for enterprise network detection and response for the past two years.
We offer compelling benefits* to our employees, including:
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays + Paid Volunteer Time
- FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP where applicable
- Educational Reimbursement
- 401k with employer match or Pension where applicable
- Pet Insurance (US only)
- Generous Parental Leave
*Benefits outside of the US vary by region.
We are intentional about our culture, diversity, and inclusion, and we welcome everyone to come ready to participate in contributing to this truly unique environment. At ExtraHop, we believe that the best products, services, and companies are built by strong teams that include a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, ideas, and experiences. We are committed to supporting and enabling growth and opportunity for every employee at every level. This is the foundation of our success.
We are equally committed to equal employment opportunity, and it is foundational to how we recruit and hire our talented team. Employment is determined based upon capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including potential pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability , HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.
Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against nation-states, cyber criminals, and insider threats.
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