<p>This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale.
You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams.
This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform.
</p> <p>At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products.
</li> <li>Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments.
</li> <li>Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout.
</li> <li>Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance.
</li> <li>Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products.
</li> <li>Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional ch.