This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Italy.

📋 Description

• Become a part of a cross-functional team responsible for the complete process of metrics collection and ingestion, from agents on customer hosts and Kubernetes nodes to the backend ingestion and processing at Sysdig.

• Address performance, scalability, and accuracy challenges throughout the entire pipeline.

• Take the lead on technical design for features involving both the agent and backend systems.

• Work closely with product and design teams to define specifications and establish timelines.

• Play a key role in enhancing and developing the product alongside the team.

• Engage in an on-call rotation to manage urgent issues as they arise.

• Report directly to the Engineering Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong coding capabilities, with over 5 years of professional experience in at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++, along with a willingness to learn and work with diverse technologies.

• Robust background in systems programming, including knowledge of Linux internals, processes, control groups, networking, and file I/O.

• Proven experience in developing performance-sensitive software that operates on customer infrastructure, ensuring it is resource-efficient, resilient to partial failures, and safe for privileged execution.

• Understanding of distributed systems, including horizontally scalable services and/or event-driven architectures.

• Proficiency in English.

• Experience with eBPF, kernel-level instrumentation, or container runtimes (such as containerd, CRI-O, Docker) is a significant advantage.

• Familiarity with observability tools and telemetry is highly sought after.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes is an additional asset.

• Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is beneficial.