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# Senior Software Engineer (Monitor Ingestion team)

- **Company:** Sysdig, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Linux Kernel, Google Cloud, Grafana, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Software Coding, Docker
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pszb4b3tlh

## About the Role

* Advanced coding skills, with 5+ years of professional experience in at least one of Rust, Go or C/C++, and willingness to learn and work across different technologies.
 * Solid systems-programming background: Linux internals, processes, control groups, networking and file I/O. Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation or container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O, Docker) is a strong plus.
 * 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.
 * Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry is highly desirable.
 * Familiarity with Kubernetes is a strong plus. Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.

What We Look For

 * Collaboration: The ability to excel in a cross-team environment, contributing to both technical and product discussions.
 * Growth Mindset: A willingness to participate in professional development to stay current with industry trends.
 * Communication: Fluency in English.

## Description

* You will join a cross-functional team that owns metrics collection and ingestion end to end, from the agent running on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes to ingestion and processing in the Sysdig backend.
 * Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will solve performance, scalability and correctness problems across the whole pipeline.
 * You will lead technical design for features across the agent and backend, and collaborate with product and design on specifications and timelines.
 * You will be part of a team whose main goal is to work together to build the best product we can. We enjoy what we do and we always aim to get better.
 * You will take part in an on-call rotation to handle urgent issues.