Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent

ABOUT THE ROLE Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent to 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. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent, you will be responsible for leading the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. Key responsibilities include: - Designing and building reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments - Driving end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout - Establishing and evolving testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance - Partnering with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products - Providing technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you will need significant experience building software in Linux environments, including knowledge of Linux internals, kernel APIs, or systems programming. You should also have hands-on experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, driver development, networking systems, agent development, or related low-level technologies. Additionally, you should have experience building and running systems where performance and reliability actually matter, as well as building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions. WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure our team members can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This allows for flexibility and work-life balance while maintaining collaboration and creativity. BENEFITS Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.