Senior Software Engineer - Linux Kernel / GPU Monitoring, Paris

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.

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

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

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