About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- Significant experience building software in Linux environments, including 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 maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.
- Product-minded and customer-focused, balancing technical excellence with customer impact and usability.