Technical Engineering Lead (Runtime Agent)

The role

Lead and grow a team of engineers who build Sysdig's runtime agent, the software customers install in their environments. Own technical direction, hiring, growth and performance for the team, and stay hands-on with the most demanding cross-cutting work. Partner with product and security research teams to add functionality without hurting performance or stability in production.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of engineers, including hiring and performance
• Own technical direction for the team's runtime agent work
• Review designs and code across the team and unblock engineers on hard problems
• Stay hands-on with the most technically demanding, cross-cutting work
• Partner with product, detection and security research teams on new runtime agent functionality
• Protect performance and stability of the agent in production

Required qualifications

• Experience leading a team of engineers: hiring, mentoring and managing performance, while staying technical enough to set direction and review work
• Extensive experience building and operating low-level, performance-critical systems software in C or C++ that runs continuously in production on customer infrastructure
• Working experience with containerized and orchestrated systems (Kubernetes, containerd, familiarity with cgroups)
• Deep working knowledge of OS internals and instrumentation techniques such as eBPF or kernel modules
• Proficiency in Linux internals
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including reliability and performance trade-offs of software running on every host or container it touches
• Experience managing a distributed team and planning a long-term roadmap with features spanning several teams
• Experience growing a team through a period of rapid product change

Nice to have

• Expertise in Go or Rust
• Good knowledge of Windows and/or Mac internals

Benefits

• Extra days off
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
• Great compensation package
• Collective bargaining agreement: CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio

Before you apply

• The posting says the national collective bargaining agreement applied is CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio

About the company

Sysdig creates Falco, an open standard for cloud threat detection, and provides runtime insights and cloud security technology. The posting says its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500 and that it has been recognized as a Best Place to Work and one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies for five years.