Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent at Datadog, you will be part of a high-performing team that powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. 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, 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. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. - 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. - 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 actually matter. - Experience building and maintaining production software across diverse Linux distributions and kernel versions. - A product-minded and customer-focused approach, balancing technical excellence with customer impact and usability. WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This allows for flexibility and autonomy in your work arrangements, enabling you to work effectively from anywhere. 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. Additionally, Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.