The opportunity
This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and…
What you'll do
Lead the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that: power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products.
Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process,: file, and network visibility within Linux environments.
Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design: through implementation, testing, and rollout.
Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage,: detection quality, reliability, and performance.
Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to: deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products.
Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring: peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges.
What they're looking for
- You have significant experience building software in Linux environments,: including knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming.
- You have hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver: development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies.
- You've built and run systems where performance and reliability actually matter.
- You have experience building and maintaining production software across: diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.