Technical Engineering Lead (Runtime Agent)

Lever, Inc.; Town of Italy (NY); Hybrid; EUR 66,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra days off

Mental health support

Great compensation package

Job summary

Sysdig is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team building Sysdig's runtime agent and related tooling. You will own technical direction, hire and grow engineers, and ensure delivery in production environments across customer deployments.

You will review designs, stay hands-on on the toughest problems, and partner with product, detection, and security research teams to add capabilities while maintaining performance and stability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of engineers, hiring, mentoring and performance management.
• Extensive experience building and operating low-level, performance-critical systems software.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, owning technical direction and performance.
• Review designs and code, unblock engineers on hard problems.
• Collaborate with product, detection and security research teams to add functionality without regressions.

Skills

Team leadership

Low-level systems

Linux internals

Distributed systems

Go or Rust

Container runtimes

Tools

Kubernetes

containerd

eBPF

Kernel modules

Job description

At Sysdig, we believe cloud security isn't a compromise - it's a promise. From the start, our mission has been clear: to help organizations secure innovation in the cloud, the right way.

We created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection, and continue to lead the cloud security market with runtime insights, open innovation, and agentic Al. Creators of technology trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500, Sysdig gives teams the real-time clarity to move fast and defend what matters most.

Culture matters here. We believe diversity fuels stronger ideas, and open dialogue drives sharper decisions. Recognized as a Best Place to Work and one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies for the past 5 years, we're here to raise the standard for what cloud security and workplace culture should be.

If you have the passion to dig deeper, the desire to challenge convention, and the curiosity to build something better, Sysdig is the right place for you.

What you will do

• Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead and grow a team of engineers , owning technical direction plus hiring, growth, and performance for the people on your team who build Sysdig's runtime agent, the software customers install directly in their environments and Sysdog’s the primary data source.

• You will review designs and code across the team, unblock engineers on the hardest problems, and stay hands-on with the most technically demanding, cross-cutting work yourself.

• You will partner with product, detection and security research teams to guarantee new functionality into our runtime agent without regressing performance or stability in production.

What you will bring with you

• You have experience leading a team of engineers: hiring, mentoring, and managing performance while staying technical enough to set direction and review the work yourself.
• You have extensive experience building and operating low-level, performance-critical systems software (C, C++) that runs continuously in production on customer infrastructure as well as working experience with containerized and orchestrated systems (kubernetes, containerd, familiarity with cgroup).
• You have deep working knowledge of OSs internals and instrumentation techniques such as eBPF or kernel modules. Proficiency on Linux internal is required.
• You have experience operating distributed systems at scale, including the reliability and performance trade-offs of software that has to run safely on every host or container it touches.

What we look for

• You have experience on managing a distributed team, with experience on planning with a long term roadmap and features that span across different teams.
• Expertise in Go or Rust will be a plus
• Experience growing a team through a period of rapid product change.
• Good knowledge of Windows and/or Mac’s internal is a plus.

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

The annual compensation range for this full-time position is between €66,000 and €83,000. Actual offers may be higher or lower than this range based on a variety of factors, including your work location, job-related experience and education.
The national collective bargaining agreement (CCNL) applied by Sysdig is CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio.

Sysdig values a diverse workplace and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Sysdig is an equal-opportunity employer. Sysdig does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.
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