Big Data, the cloud, elastic computing, SaaS, AWS, BYOD, HPC, SDN—we do it all. The solutions we build at ExtraHop are transforming the IT industry. From retail websites and point-of-sale systems to financial services and the healthcare industry, ExtraHop helps modern businesses handle the growing demands on their applications and infrastructures.

We’re growing fast and we’re looking for people who love to build things: products, companies, markets, and their careers! Think you have what it takes to work on one of the best teams in the industry? Read on.

As an IT Systems Engineer you would not be locked into a rigid box of duties; instead you would have a large effect on the company while molding IT systems to your ideals.

As part of the EHIT team, you will be designing, maintaining, and occasionally breaking our customer-facing and internal systems. Our needs are fast-moving, and we like to take risks. That said, we have to make sure that we can affect a speedy rollback in the event a change does not go smoothly. We don’t have the time to spend weeks prepping and planning for guaranteed zero downtime. We are a close-knit team, and duties frequently overlap and flow, including into other Engineering and Development teams.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure 24x7 availability and responsiveness of services and infrastructure
• Be part of the oncall rotation for production services
• Configure monitoring of production and development/test systems, with both ExtraHop products and legacy monitoring tools
• Add to existing internal knowledge base, including design documents, playbooks, network diagrams, and user-facing documentation
• Write elegant code and scripts to solve problems

Required Qualifications

• Scripting skills on Unix/Linux platforms; python and bash prefered
• Strong Competency with LAMP systems
• Experience with one or more virtualization infrastructures, e.g. VMware, KVM, and VirtualBox
• Knowledge of networking and application protocols, e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP, TLS/SSL.
• Ability to task-switch quickly in an oft interrupt-driven environment
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Capable of independent self-direction
• Security-oriented mindset in all development and administration choices

Desired Skills and Experience

• Windows support and administration
• Cloud virtualization platform experience, such as AWS, Azure, or GCE/GKE
• Firewall and security management
• SQL and NoSQL use and system administration experience
• Linux configuration management systems implementation and configuration such as ansible, puppet, or chef
• A strong opinion about vi vs emacs.

About ExtraHop

At ExtraHop, we create great products because we give talented employees the freedom to be intellectually curious and creative. We seek a diversity of perspectives and foster employee quirkiness and spunk to help drive innovation. Every ExtraHop employee knows that we’re all in this together and that work is an important part of life so it should be fun. A sense of humor is required here, seriously!

We are the global leader with a novel approach to Security and IT Operational Analytics. Our market opportunity is greater than $20B and our solutions span all industries. Pretty neat, huh? If you want to join a fun team that produces award-winning products that provide tremendous business value and delight customers, then ExtraHop is the company for you!

Founded by engineers, ExtraHop is a Seattle-based technology company that delivers elegant solutions for the tech industry’s most challenging problems. 

As a privately held fast-growing technology leader in the $20B IT operations management space, ExtraHop Networks is positioned to be the next great systems company. We are known as innovators who take a smart, creative approach to solving problems. Our ExtraHop team and product line have received many awards, including wins in multiple categories of Best of Interop, a Gold Medal prize in Puget Sound Business Journal’s annual list of Washington’s Best Workplaces, and several Gold Stevie American Business Awards.

ExtraHop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law