Senior Software Engineer, Linux/eBPF

Datadog

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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the eBPF Platform team at Datadog, you will play a pivotal role in advancing GPU Monitoring capabilities within the Datadog Agent. Your responsibilities include contributing to feature development from ideation through implementation, building and maintaining shared eBPF functionality for product teams, investigating complex production issues across the kernel, eBPF programs, and agent runtime, researching and developing solutions to challenging problems in the eBPF and GPU monitoring space, and providing technical guidance on product and architecture decisions. This role requires expertise in Linux kernel development or eBPF programming, experience with high throughput/low latency systems, proficiency in C for low-level program development, and a strong background in building applications and tooling over five years. You will work within a collaborative environment to deliver robust solutions that provide deep visibility into GPU utilization and performance across diverse infrastructure environments.

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eBPF Linux Kernel C GPU Monitoring Datadog Agent Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Python Go Kubernetes AWS PostgreSQL Git GitHub

What you'll do

Contribute to end-to-end GPU Monitoring feature development within the Datadog Agent.
Build and maintain shared eBPF functionality for various product teams.
Investigate and debug complex production issues involving kernel, eBPF programs, and agent runtime.
Research, prototype, develop, and document solutions for challenging problems in eBPF and GPU monitoring.
Provide technical input to shape product architecture decisions.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience with Linux kernel development or eBPF.
Proven track record of building high-throughput, low-latency systems.
At least 5 years of hands-on application and tooling development in C or similar languages.
Strong problem-solving skills for customer-focused solutions.
Ability to investigate and debug complex production issues across multiple layers.
Experience contributing to open-source projects like btfhub and cilium/ebpf.
Effective teamwork and technical input provision for product decisions.

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