Senior Software Engineer (Monitor Ingestion team)

The role

You will join the Monitor Ingestion team and work on metrics collection and ingestion end to end, from the agent on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes to the Sysdig backend. You will solve performance, scalability and correctness problems across the pipeline and lead technical design for features across the agent and backend.

What you will do

• Own metrics collection and ingestion end to end, from the agent to the Sysdig backend
• 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
• Take part in an on-call rotation for urgent issues

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with at least one of Rust, Go or C/C++
• Solid systems-programming background: Linux internals, processes, control groups, networking and file I/O
• Experience building performance-sensitive software that runs on customer infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems: horizontally scalable services and/or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry
• Fluency in English
• Ability to collaborate across teams and contribute to technical and product discussions
• Willingness to learn and work across different technologies

Nice to have

• Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Sysdig applies the national collective bargaining agreement CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio

About the company

Sysdig creates Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection, and provides runtime security for cloud teams. Its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500.