Sr Software Engineer, Data Science

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.

Extra Hop is at the forefront of innovation in the cybersecurity space, delivering cutting-edge Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions that empower organizations to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyber risks in real time.

Join Extra Hop as a Sr. Software Engineer and help us build a fault-resilient, highly available, and customer-centric platform. In this role you will work with the team to build a scalable and secure platform and develop customer-facing features that enable security and engineering teams to stop threats in their tracks. This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is obsessed with customer success, passionate about simplification, and eager to dive deep into technology best practices.

Our services and features are written primarily in Python, Golang, Type Script, and React, with a focus on security, scalability, stability, and type-first design. Our team develops public REST APIs, solves database scalability challenges, implements data migrations, and enables configuration management across our fleet of services. The R(x) 360 Platform is built on AWS and GCP and utilizes Terraform to define Infrastructure-as-Code across our services and high-throughput data pipelines.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain AI/ML models and pipelines powering Extra Hop's products.
• Monitor, evaluate, refine, and optimize algorithms to improve accuracy and reduce false positives for model-based behavioral detectors.
• Participate in agile development processes, code reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that AI/ML features are integrated seamlessly into the broader product architecture.
• Provide technical leadership to junior team members and leverage design and mentorship experience to enable the broader team.
• Act as a technical expert, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and collaborative problem solving.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices.
• Address technical debt proactively, continually improving our codebase and technical stack.
• Stay current on the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and technologies to contribute to product enhancements.
• Assist in the documentation of product features, technical specifications, and engineering guides.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional backend development experience with at least two years at a senior or higher level.
• Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language, with strong general programming fundamentals.
• Experience in machine learning, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Experience building or operating production AI/ML systems, including model lifecycle management, data/training pipelines, and monitoring.
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS; experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development practices.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong problem-solving skills, a self-starter mentality, and a track record of technical ownership.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently and in fast-paced team environments.

• Experience with Django, FastAPI, or another Python web framework.
• Experience with cloud services on AWS or Azure (EKS / RDS / S3 / SQS / EC2 / IAM).
• Experience with infrastructure as a software tooling, such as Hashi Corp (Packer, Vault, Terraform).
• Experience in API development, PostgreSQL database design, or SQL query performance optimization.
• Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity or NDR environments.
• Knowledge of tools and frameworks commonly used in network detection and response.
• Understanding of threat detection, intrusion prevention, and incident response strategies.

The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $180,000 + bonus + benefits

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