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