Datadog
Staff Software Engineer- Security Agent
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Role overview
Staff Software Engineer- Security Agent
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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.
- You have significant experience building software in Linux environments, including knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming.
- You have hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies.
- You've built and run systems where performance and reliability actually matter.
- You have experience building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.
- You are product-minded and customer-focused, balancing technical excellence with customer impact and usability.
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