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Salary: EUR 54,000 - 68,000 / annual
Sysdig is a cloud security company that created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection, and serves over 60% of the Fortune 500. The company combines runtime insights, open innovation, and agentic AI to help organizations secure innovation in the cloud.
You will join the Monitor Ingestion team, a cross-functional group that owns metrics collection and ingestion end-to-end, from agents running on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes through to ingestion and processing in the Sysdig backend. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will solve performance, scalability, and correctness problems across the entire pipeline.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading technical design for features across both agent and backend components
- Collaborating with product and design teams on specifications and timelines
- Working with the team to build the best product possible
- Participating in an on-call rotation to handle urgent issues
This is a role for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems and thrives in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. The team values open dialogue, diversity of thought, and continuous improvement.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of professional experience in at least one of: Rust, Go, or C/C++, with willingness to learn and work across different technologies
- Solid systems-programming background: Linux internals, processes, control groups, networking, and file I/O
- Strong plus: Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker)
- Experience building performance-sensitive software that runs on customer infrastructure: resource-bounded, robust to partial failures, and safe to run privileged
- Familiarity with distributed systems: horizontally scalable services and/or event-driven architectures
- Highly desirable: Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry
- Strong plus: Familiarity with Kubernetes; experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
- Fluency in English
- Collaboration skills and growth mindset
