Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Security Agent team, you shape the design and delivery of Linux runtime security technologies at scale. You lead architecture and development of eBPF-based capabilities that detect threats and protect cloud-native workloads across Datadog products. You collaborate across product, security, and engineering teams, driving end-to-end delivery and advancing testing and performance. This role offers ownership, cross-team influence, and a chance to impact the security platform’s future in a hybrid-work environment.
Leistungen / Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development
- Mentor and buddy program
- Inclusive culture and employee resource groups
- Competitive global benefits
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Lead architecture and development of security agent capabilities for runtime threat detection and workload protection
- Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring for process, file, and network visibility on Linux
- Drive end-to-end delivery from strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout
- Establish 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, mentor peers, and help resolve cross-functional challenges
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Significant experience building software in Linux environments with knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming
- Hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, or related low-level tech
- Experience building and running production software where performance and reliability matter
- Experience delivering production-grade software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions
- Product-minded and customer-focused mindset balancing technical excellence with usability
- Demonstrated technical leadership influencing architecture and execution across teams
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Cross-functional collaboration and teamwork
- Mentoring peers and influencing engineering direction
- eBPF
- Linux kernel internals
- Kernel APIs
Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent in Dortmund Arbeitgeber: Datadog
Datadog ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern nicht nur großzügige und wettbewerbsfähige globale Vorteile bietet, sondern auch kontinuierliche Karriereentwicklung und Schulungsmöglichkeiten. Die inklusive und freundliche Unternehmenskultur fördert den Wissensaustausch und die Zusammenarbeit in einem dynamischen Team, das sich leidenschaftlich für den Erfolg seiner Partner und Kunden einsetzt. Mit einem starken Fokus auf persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung ist Datadog der ideale Ort für technikaffine Fachkräfte, die in einem innovativen Umfeld arbeiten möchten.
