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Datadog

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

Datadog is a comprehensive observability and security platform that provides integrated monitoring for infrastructure, applications, and cloud services. It enables organizations to gain end-to-end visibility into their technology stacks, optimize performance, and manage security threats in real time. Datadog's solutions include application performance monitoring, logs management, and operational analytics, making it essential for teams looking to improve their digital experience and streamline software delivery processes.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. • Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments. • Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout. • Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance. • Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products. • Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges.

🎯 Requirements

• You have significant experience building software in Linux environments, including knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming. • You have hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies. • You've built and run systems where performance and reliability actually matter. • You have experience building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions. • You are product-minded and customer-focused, balancing technical excellence with customer impact and usability. • You have demonstrated technical leadership, influencing architecture and execution across teams while communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) • Competitive global benefits • Giving programs