Senior Software Engineer (Monitor Ingestion team)

The role

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

What you will do

• Own metrics collection and ingestion end to end, from the agent on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes to 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
• Take part in an on-call rotation to handle urgent issues

Required qualifications

• 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
• Familiarity with distributed systems: horizontally scalable services and/or event-driven architectures
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker)
• Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry
• 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 encourages applications even if your experience does not perfectly match the job description

About the company

Sysdig is a cloud security company and creator of Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. Its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500.