Staff Software Engineer (Realtime Detections)

1 day, 13 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Sysdig

Sysdig

Sysdig provides advanced security solutions for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, enabling organizations to gain visibility and context through runtime insights to proactively prevent cyber attacks.

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$730M raised

Description

  • Lead the design of core components for real-time threat detection and response across hosts, Kubernetes, and cloud assets.
  • Build distributed, scalable Go services to process, store, and analyze customer asset metadata and runtime insights.
  • Drive scale-out improvements by evolving the architecture for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with Product, Threat Research, Frontend/UX, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-impact features.
  • Develop Go microservices and APIs for internal and external use cases.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers on the team.
  • Contribute to the product’s technical strategy and architectural direction.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to urgent issues.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including technical leadership responsibilities.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Experience with clean coding and automation practices.
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized workloads, including Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Operational mindset with experience in logging, metrics, and tracing for observability and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Experience with technologies such as Postgres, Elastic, Redis, and queueing systems like JetStream or Kafka.
  • Analytical approach to making technical decisions in traffic-intensive, distributed architectures.
  • Experience guiding technical direction and supporting the development of junior engineers.

Benefits

  • Extra days off to prioritize your well-being.
  • Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app.
  • Great compensation package.
  • Remote-friendly flexible work arrangement.
  • Opportunity to work in an award-winning, fast-growing company with a strong engineering culture.

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