Senior Manager, Engineering | Framework

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.

Position Summary

The Framework team at ExtraHop is responsible for developing and optimizing the foundational components that power our industry-leading cybersecurity and network detection products. This team tackles challenges related to enterprise-scale network traffic processing, advanced protocol parsing, metrics publishing, continuous packet capture, and high-performance time series database management

As an Sr. Engineering Manager for the Framework team, you’ll lead a talented group of engineers dedicated to building robust, enterprise-class solutions. You’ll drive technical excellence, ensure timely delivery of high-quality products, and cultivate an environment that promotes innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Working closely with Product Management, you’ll guide your team through strategic design decisions, roadmap execution and architectural planning. If your leadership style empowers teams, values open communication and emphasizes clear goals, ExtraHop is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with Product Management to translate strategic product visions and feature priorities into actionable, timely feature releases, leveraging your strong track record of making tough tradeoffs to balance scope, quality, supportability, performance, and time criticality.

• Lead design and implementation decisions on technically complex projects, ensuring alignment with long-term objectives. 
• Collaborate with the QA/Performance team to uphold high standards of stability, quality, and scalability expected by enterprise clients. 
• Provide hands-on technical guidance during critical escalations and manage customer issue resolution.
• Develop, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team through proactive hiring, coaching, performance management and career development initiatives.
• Encourage continuous learning, technical innovation, and the proactive adoption of cutting-edge technologies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent combination of experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of engineering management shepherding teams that have delivered customer-facing features through design, architecture, and development
• Proven experience in systems-level software development using languages such as C, C++, or Java, combined with a solid track record of learning technologies.
• Experience innovating and improving technology of performance/stability/scale. 
• Building/debugging/supporting software that runs at customer network/environment/hardware is key to success in this role
• Strong understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP), secure network communications (SSL, x509, authentication, kerberos, PKI), and distributed computing fundamentals.
• Deep technical knowledge in areas such as cryptography, compression, memory management, relationship of kernel/user space, high performance computing, parsing framework, and network protocols.
• Track record of making software utilizing a deep understanding of hardware/software constraints (CPU, L2 cache, main memory, disk latency, drivers, bus speed, etc.).
• Solid understanding of Linux and Windows OS, their subsystems and their interrelationships.
• Supported high performance (compute/CPU constraints, high network or disk throughput, challenging memory issues) and highly available application for enterprise level customer
• Proven track record in Agile software development methodologies, with a keen understanding of algorithms, optimizations, trade offs, industry practices for applications running on a customer network.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams specifically within cybersecurity, NDR, or related fields
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks
• Certifications in cybersecurity or advanced degrees in computer science, cybersecurity, or related fields

Skills and Competencies

• Technical Leadership | Ability to lead highly technical teams through complex system software development
• Strategic Vision | Strong ability to balance immediate delivery goals with long-term architectural planning
• Problem Solving | Exceptional aptitude for solving challenging technical issues and performance optimizations.
• Crisp Communication | Clear, influential communicator capable of articulating complex technical details to cross-functional teams and executive leadership.

The salary range for this position is 190,000-220,000 + bonus + benefits 

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 2023 Partner Program Guide. Our flagship product, Reveal(x), has received numerous accolades, including a 2022 Edison Award for Cybersecurity. 

Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
• Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
• FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable
• Educational Reimbursement
• 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
• Pet Insurance (US Only)
• Parental Leave (US Only)
• Hybrid and Remote Work Model

*Candidates should note that the Company may modify reporting relationships, job titles and compensation, including commissions and benefits, from time to time at its sole discretion, as it deems necessary, with or without prior notice.

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, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status, pregnancy (including but not limited to potential pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, age , national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, disability ,, genetic information, or any other protected class as established by law.

Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge cyber criminals and insider threats.

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