3 months ago
Remote, PortugalStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the 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 in Linux environments.
- Own feature delivery from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout.
- Establish and improve testing methodologies for platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams on shared platform capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership, influence engineering direction, mentor peers, and resolve complex cross-functional challenges.
Requirements
- Significant experience building production 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 operating systems where performance and reliability are critical.
- Experience maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.
- Product-minded and customer-focused approach that balances technical excellence with customer impact and usability.
- Demonstrated technical leadership influencing architecture and execution across teams, with effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
- Inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds employee resource groups
- Competitive global benefits that may vary by country and employment type
- Giving programs
- Hybrid workplace
About Datadog
Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.