Sysdig

Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Provider Team)

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2 months ago
Rome, ItalyStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable distributed backend APIs and services integrating with IBM Cloud.
  • Guide the evolution of Sysdig’s managed service capabilities and long-term IBM Cloud integration architecture.
  • Design IAM, authentication and authorization, service-to-service, resiliency, API, and data-modeling patterns.
  • Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Partner teams on requirements and maintainable interfaces.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and improvements to engineering standards.
  • Support quality, simplicity, clarity, SaaS operations, Kubernetes deployments, scaling, observability, and incident response practices.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building distributed backend systems and APIs, preferably data-heavy or high-throughput systems.
  • Experience with cloud fundamentals including compute, networking, identity, and security, with the ability to learn IBM Cloud specifics.
  • Experience with IAM and access patterns such as OAuth/OIDC, JWT, RBAC, or policy-based access; IBM Cloud IAM experience is a plus.
  • Experience with SaaS operations and Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, observability, and incident response.
  • Development experience in Java, Go, or similar languages.
  • Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL data stores, including Postgres or other database systems.
  • Understanding of API versioning, backward compatibility, consistency, and access control.
  • Familiarity with standard engineering tools including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and containerization.
  • Interest or experience in cloud security areas such as CSPM, CDR, or CIEM is appreciated but not required.

Benefits

  • Extra days off to support well-being.
  • Mental health support for employees and their families through the Modern Health app.
  • Great compensation package.
  • Remote role, indicated by the #LI-Remote posting tag.

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About Sysdig

501-1,000 employees
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