Senior Software Engineer - Linux/eBPF

About the Role

The eBPF Platform team at Datadog is responsible for the shared eBPF infrastructure within the Datadog Agent, ensuring its reliability, performance, and evolution across various Linux distributions and kernel versions. We develop tooling and agent functionality for product teams utilizing eBPF, including Network Performance Monitoring, Universal Service Monitoring, Cloud Workload Security, and GPU Monitoring. The team also centralizes deep kernel expertise and contributes to open-source projects like btfhub and cilium/ebpf.

Datadog is significantly investing in GPU Monitoring to provide customers with detailed visibility into GPU utilization, health, and performance. The eBPF Platform team builds the agent-side foundation for this, from eBPF programs capturing GPU activity at the kernel level to the metrics pipelines and validation infrastructure ensuring data quality at scale.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of eBPF, the Linux kernel, and GPU infrastructure. You will contribute to GPU Monitoring capabilities within the Datadog Agent, work across the broader eBPF platform, investigate production incidents, improve reliability, and help shape the architecture of a widely deployed eBPF solution in the industry.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to GPU Monitoring feature development end-to-end, from ideation to implementation within the Datadog Agent.
• Build and maintain shared eBPF functionality for product teams to use in their eBPF-based products.
• Investigate and debug complex production issues spanning the kernel, eBPF programs, and agent runtime.
• Research, prototype, develop, and document solutions to challenging problems in the eBPF and GPU monitoring space.
• Provide technical input to product and architecture decisions.

Who You Are

• You have experience working with and developing in the Linux kernel, either using eBPF, as a kernel developer, or building low-level programs in C.
• You have significant experience building high throughput/low latency systems.
• You have been building applications and tooling for 5+ years and possess in-depth knowledge of the systems you’ve worked on.
• You are motivated by solving problems for customers and building products they love.
• You have the ability to work effectively in a team.