Software Engineer – ExtraHop Networks
Do you want to solve problems instead of sitting through meetings?
Do you work better as part of a small, focused team?
Do you want to feel a sense of ownership in what you do and make a real impact?
So do we.
We are looking for individuals who love technology, appreciate elegant solutions to hard problems, and want to learn new things.
Sense of humor required…Seriously.
ExtraHop Networks is more than just the products we sell. We’ve built our company from the ground up with the idea of creating great jobs for great people. As a fast-paced startup, each day offers new opportunities to innovate in all areas of the company. We value quality and integrity in everything we do, from interacting with customers to developing the best technology in the industry.
Don’t just take our word for it. We’re a favorite! The Puget Sound public has chosen us as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in the Favorite Startups category in the fourth annual NWjobs People’s Picks
contest:
http://marketplace.nwsource.com/job/peoplespicks/2009/winners/index.cfm?lid=709015
If you are a Software Engineer who shares our philosophy, we would like to hear from you! In this key position, you will design, develop, and test features and functionality for the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system. The innovative ExtraHop system is an intelligent, application-aware network device that solves some of the
toughest challenges in network and application management and helps to keep applications running at network speed. We are looking for Software Engineers with great ideas and an enthusiasm for elegant code as we continue to expand the functionality of the current ExtraHop products as well as develop other exciting new projects.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and test features and functionality for ExtraHop products
- Optimize product performance
- Develop maintainable, extensible solutions to complex internal communications and schema problems
- Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents
Qualifications
- Four-year degree or equivalent in a related discipline (such as computer science, engineering, or information technology)
- Five years of professional software-development experience in a Unix-based environment
- Mastery of C and data structures required
- Extensive background in TCP/IP networking
- Knowledge and expertise in software-engineering methodologies and effective unit testing
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking technologies: switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, WAN optimization technologies, and so forth
- Solid understanding of enterprise-architecture concepts: 3-tier architecture, high-availability/disaster recovery (active-active data centers, redundant switch stacks, and so forth)
- Solid understanding of the OSI model and excellent working knowledge of the key protocols from Layer 2 through Layer 7 including ARP, IP, TCP, UDP, and HTTP
- Protocol-level understanding of how various software components involved in enterprise service delivery interact: web servers, application servers, databases, web services, mainframes, network attached storage, and so forth
- Hands-on experience with passive network monitoring: mirror port configuration (especially Cisco SPAN, RSPAN, and VACL configuration), network TAP installation, span aggregators, and so forth
- Familiarity with trends in enterprise services, such as virtualization, cloud computing, and VOIP
- Familiarity with the network- and application-monitoring space a plus
- Experience analyzing packet captures a plus
To apply, please email your resume to jobs at extrahop . com
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