Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

Who You Are:

• 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.