
Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent
Description
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. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
Requirements
- Significant experience building software in Linux environments, including knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming.
- Hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies.
- Experience building and running systems where performance and reliability matter.
- Experience building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions.
- Product-minded and customer-focused, balancing technical excellence with customer impact and usability.
Experience Level
InternEntry LevelMid-levelSeniorLeadExecutive

About the company
DatadogDatadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and security platform for infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. Unified observability for dev, ops, security, and business teams.
Employees
6,000
Tech Stack
GoPythonJavaRustC++TypeScriptReactKafkaCassandraElasticsearchPostgreSQLKubernetes
Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and security platform for infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. Unified observability for dev, ops, security, and business teams.
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