Senior Software Engineer (Realtime Detection)
Quick Summary
In the cloud, every second counts. On the leading edge of security, Sysdig stops attacks in real-time by instantly detecting changes in cloud security risk with runtime insights and open source Falco.
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
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
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
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- May 6, 2026
- First seen
- May 11, 2026
- Last seen
- May 11, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 1
- Trust Level
- 47%
- Scored at
- May 11, 2026
Signal breakdown

As cloud-native becomes the standard for application deployment, IT roles must adapt.
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