Senior Software Engineer, Monitor Ingestion Team

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Senior Software Engineer building metrics collection and ingestion for Sysdig’s cloud-security platform. Solving scalable systems problems across agents, Kubernetes, and backend services.

Responsibilities:

  • Join a cross-functional team owning metrics collection and ingestion end to end, from agents on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes to Sysdig backend ingestion and processing
  • Solve performance, scalability and correctness problems across the pipeline
  • Lead technical design for features across the agent and backend
  • Collaborate with product and design on specifications and timelines
  • Contribute to building and improving the product with the team
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to handle urgent issues
  • Report to the Engineering Manager

Requirements:

  • Advanced coding skills, with 5+ years of professional experience in at least one of Rust, Go or C/C++, and willingness to learn and work across different technologies
  • Solid systems-programming background: Linux internals, processes, control groups, networking and file I/O
  • Experience building performance-sensitive software that runs on customer infrastructure: resource-bounded, robust to partial failures, and safe to run privileged
  • Familiarity with distributed systems: horizontally scalable services, and/or event-driven architectures
  • Fluency in English
  • Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker) is a strong plus
  • Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry is highly desirable
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes is a strong plus
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus

Benefits:

  • Extra days off to prioritize your well-being
  • Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
  • Great compensation package