Senior Software Engineer | Cloud

Extra Hop# Senior Software Engineer | CloudAI Summary Extra Hop  is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, deliver, and operate the secure, scalable services behind its cybersecurity platform. The role owns architectural decisions for distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, observability, and operational reliability. The engineer will lead complex initiatives through production, improve CI/CD and incident-response practices, and embed security controls such as IAM and encryption.

This is a technical leadership role that includes cross-functional collaboration and mentoring engineers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States under the stated citizenship, residency, refugee, or asylum criteria.

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USD 160k–180k / yr Department:
Dev Ops & Infrastructure Employment:
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31 Oct 2026

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At Extra Hop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on Extra Hop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools.

With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.

Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.
** Position Summary
** At the heart of our Cloud team is a mission to build a secure, scalable, and high-performance platform that powers our cybersecurity products. As a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud, you will own the design, delivery, and operation of critical cloud services, driving architectural decisions and ensuring systems meet the highest standards of reliability, security, and scalability.

This role goes beyond implementation. You will lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, influence system design across teams, and set the standard for engineering excellence within the cloud domain. You’ll partner closely with engineering, security, and product teams to solve deeply technical challenges and evolve our cloud platform to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Own the architecture, development, and operation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant cloud services, with accountability for performance and reliability in production.
* Drive technical design and architectural decisions for distributed systems, influencing patterns, standards, and long-term platform evolution.
* Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with business and technical priorities.
* Build and scale cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), improving system resilience and efficiency.
* Advance cloud security and compliance practices, embedding secure design principles, IAM controls, and encryption into all layers of the platform.
* Improve system observability and operational excellence, implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
* Drive Dev Ops maturity,…