Senior Software Engineer (Monitor Ingestion team)

Join Sysdig to advance cloud threat detection and telemetry. You will own end-to-end metrics collection from agents to backend processing, tackling performance and scalability. You’ll design features for the agent and backend, collaborating with product and design while supporting on-call responsibilities. This role offers impact in securing cloud innovation and contributing to a mission-driven engineering culture.

• extra days off
• Mental health support (Modern Health)
• great compensation package

• Own end-to-end metrics collection and ingestion pipeline from agent to backend
• Lead technical design for features across agent and backend
• Collaborate with product and design on specifications and timelines
• Solve performance, scalability and correctness issues across the pipeline
• Contribute to a cross-functional team focused on building the best product
• Participate in on-call rotation to handle urgent issues

• 5+ years of professional experience in Rust, Go or C/C++
• Solid systems-programming background (Linux internals, processes, networking, I/O)
• Experience with eBPF, kernel instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker) is a strong plus
• Experience building performance-sensitive software for customer infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems and observability/telemetry
• Familiarity with Kubernetes; cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) a plus
• English fluency

• Collaboration in cross-team environments
• Growth mindset and continuous learning
• Clear communication
• Rust, Go or C/C++
• Linux kernel and internals
• eBPF / kernel instrumentation