Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent
- Role
- Security
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- Staff
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Staff software engineer for Datadog’s Security Agent team. Needs deep Linux systems experience, eBPF or other kernel-level/low-level instrumentation experience, and production software across Linux distributions and kernel versions.
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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 development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale. You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform.
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What you'll do
- Lead architecture and development of security agent capabilities for runtime threat detection and workload protection
- Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility in 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 to improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities
- Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and resolving complex cross-functional challenges
What they require
- Significant experience building software in Linux environments
- Knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming
- Hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies
- Experience building and running systems where performance and reliability matter
- Experience building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions
- Product-minded and customer-focused approach
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
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