Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent

Role Overview

You’ll join Datadog’s Security Agent team to lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies. The work enables customers to detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale.

Responsibilities

• 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 of new features (strategy/design → implementation → testing → rollout).
• Establish and evolve testing methodologies to improve coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance.
• Partner across product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products.
• Provide technical leadership through engineering direction, peer mentoring, and resolution of complex cross-functional issues.

Requirements

• Significant experience building software in Linux environments (Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming).
• Hands-on experience with eBPF and kernel-level instrumentation (including agent development, networking systems, or driver development).
• Experience building and running performance- and reliability-critical systems.
• Experience shipping production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.
• Product-minded, customer-focused approach balancing technical excellence with usability and impact.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple product teams and delivering platform capabilities at scale.