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 230,000-260,000 + bonus + benefits