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 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. Ready to join us? #Extrahop #Security #NDR #informationsecurity #cybersecurity #cloudsecurity #infosec #LI-Remote