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DatadogObservability & Security Platform

Senior Software Engineer

Linux/eBPF

Location

France

Work type

Remote

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-10 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

2d ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This role involves contributing to GPU Monitoring capabilities within the Datadog Agent and working across the broader eBPF platform. Responsibilities include investigating production incidents, improving reliability, and shaping the architecture of eBPF solutions. The position focuses on feature development, building shared eBPF functionality, and debugging complex production issues.

The eBPF Platform team owns the shared eBPF infrastructure inside the Datadog Agent, and is responsible for its reliability, performance, and evolution across a wide variety of Linux distributions and kernel versions. We build tooling and agent functionality for product teams utilizing eBPF (Network Performance Monitoring, Universal Service Monitoring, Cloud Workload Security, GPU Monitoring), enable new teams exploring eBPF, and centralize deep kernel expertise across the organization. The team contributes to open source projects such as btfhub and cilium/ebpf.


Datadog is investing heavily in GPU Monitoring to give customers deep visibility into GPU utilization, health, and performance across their infrastructure. The eBPF Platform team builds the agent-side foundation that makes this possible, from eBPF programs that capture GPU activity at the kernel level, to the metrics pipelines and validation infrastructure that ensure data quality at scale.


In this role, you will work at the intersection of eBPF, the Linux kernel, and GPU infrastructure. You'll contribute to GPU Monitoring capabilities within the Datadog Agent while also working across the broader eBPF platform, investigating production incidents, improving reliability, and helping shape the architecture of one of the most widely deployed eBPF solutions in the industry.


At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.


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 that span the kernel, eBPF programs, and agent runtime

  • Research, prototype, develop, and document solutions to hard 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 know the systems you’ve worked on in depth

  • You are motivated by solving problems for our customers first and foremost and building beautiful products that our customers love

  • You have ability to work effectively in a team


Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.


Benefits and Growth:

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds

  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions

  • Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

  • Competitive global benefits


Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Updated 2d ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Linux kernel development • 1+ yrs
eBPF • 1+ yrs
C • 1+ yrs
High throughput systems • 1+ yrs
Low latency systems • 1+ yrs
Debugging • 1+ yrs
Prototyping • 1+ yrs
Research • 1+ yrs
Problem-solving • 1+ yrs
Teamwork • 1+ yrs
Architecture • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-10 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Software Engineering

Industries

Software & SaaS

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationFrance
Work typeRemote
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium6/10
physicalLow1/10
cognitiveHigh9/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityHigh8/10
uncertaintyHigh8/10
communicationMedium7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Datadog

Team size

Growing team

Location

France

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

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