Senior Software Engineer, Monitor Ingestion Team

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

• 5+ years of professional experience in at least one of Rust, Go or C/C++
• 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
• Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Kubernetes is a strong plus
• Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker) is a strong plus
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
• Ability to excel in a cross-team environment, contributing to both technical and product discussions
• Willingness to participate in professional development to stay current with industry trends

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