What you will do:
Design and develop components related to real-time detection and response to security threats in hosts, Kubernetes, and Cloud assets.
Build distributed Go services and APIs to process, store, and expose customer asset metadata and runtime insights
Contribute to architecture improvements for reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
Collaborate with Product, Threat Research, Frontend/UX, and customer-facing teams to deliver features with measurable impact
Participate in an on-call rotation to address any urgent issue
What you will bring with you:
Computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and algorithms
5 years in a software engineer role
Experience writing production services in Go (or strong systems-language background with willingness to ramp on Go quickly)
Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized workloads (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with technologies such as Postgres, Elastic, Redis and queueing systems like JetStream/Kafka
What we look for:
Analytical approach to take technical decisions in a traffic intensive and distributed architecture
Clean coding and automation practices
Strong operational mindset: logging/metrics/tracing practices for observability and troubleshooting distributed systems
When you join Sysdig, you can expect:
- Extra days off to prioritize your well-being
- Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
- Great compensation package
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