Principal Engineering Manager

At ExtraHop, we're on a mission to help organizations achieve complete visibility, real-time threat detection, and proactive security through cutting-edge network detection and response (NDR) technology. Our NDR product is a market leader, providing our customers with the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster than ever before.

We’re proud of the work we do and the recognition we’ve received, including our recent Gartner Peer Insights award, which reflects the trust and satisfaction our customers have in our solutions.

If you're passionate about innovation, dedicated to protecting digital infrastructures, and ready to make a real impact, we invite you to join our team and help us shape the future of cybersecurity.

 

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.

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will drive product initiatives and ensure the team delivers a great product to customers. You will attract, develop, and cultivate a great engineering team and environment to maintain our technical leadership in the industry. 

ExtraHop R&D supports flexible work options, including full-time onsite, hybrid, and remote work arrangements. We believe in helping you make the best choice for you and making the team successful. 

 

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the product management team to deliver on the product vision and feature priorities.
• Identify patterns, roadblocks, and issues while they are emerging, provide solutions, and ensure the development process moves forward swiftly. 
• Provide tradeoff recommendations to Engineering leadership on navigating resources, risks, and sustainability for your product area. 
• Guide the development team on responsibilities, including shepherding day-to-day design decisions and product roadmap progress while encouraging healthy work-life balance.  
• Shepherd the team on long-term architectural choices and setting technical direction for multiple teams that own software to meet larger business or organizational goals.

 

Required Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent in CS or a related Engineering Field
• 8-10 years experience in software engineering management including knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices (Agile/DevOps)
• Experience in coaching line managers
• Strong track record of getting things done
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Experience leading by influence

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Managed teams that have delivered customer-facing features through design, architecture, and development
• Knowledge of networking, networking protocols and cyber security
• Experience in API development and database design (PostgresSQL)
• Experience around  containers and related technologies (Kubernetes / Docker / HashiCorp - Packer, Vault, and Terraform / etc.)
• Experience with building and scaling distributed, highly available systems

 

ABOUT EXTRAHOP 

ExtraHop is the cybersecurity partner enterprises trust to reveal the unknown and unmask the attack. We’re on a mission to protect and propagate trust by revealing the cybertruth, and we partner with every customer, every day, to uncover it. Our Reveal(x) 360 platform is the only network detection and response solution delivering the 360-degree visibility needed to see everything on the network. When organizations have full network transparency with ExtraHop, they can see more, know more, and stop more cyberattacks.

ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team. We’ve been recognized as a “Customer’s Choice” by Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer, and as a Leader in the Forrester Wave®: Network Analysis and Visibility, Q2 2023. ExtraHop has won AI Breakthrough Awards four times (2018-2020, 2023) and our Channel Partner program has received a 5-star rating from CRN for our