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About the role
As Staff Software Development Engineer, you'll be the Linux kernel authority for the runtime enforcement layer of our Identity Security Platform. These components decide, in-kernel, whether to permit or deny each action an identity or AI agent attempts on a Linux endpoint.
What they're looking for
- Deep Linux kernel internals - scheduling, memory management, the networking stack, syscalls, the LSM framework - backed by production systems programming in C, Rust, or both
- BTF and CO-RE, plus the practical realities of portability: task_struct layout drift, LSM config availability, tracepoint ABI
- Container runtime internals - namespaces, cgroups, seccomp - and how they intersect with kernel-level security tooling
- Kernel debugging and performance tooling: perf, ftrace, bpftrace, gdb/kgdb, crash-dump analysis
- 8+ years in systems-level software engineering, with real depth in Linux kernel development and eBPF
- A working grasp of systems design patterns and their tradeoffs at the kernel/userspace boundary
More about this role
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We take care of our employees so they can take care of our customers. Customers who come from all walks of life just like us. We hire incredible people from diverse backgrounds because when we are different together, we are stronger together.
The Role
As Staff Software Development Engineer, you'll be the Linux kernel authority for the runtime enforcement layer of our Identity Security Platform. These components decide, in-kernel, whether to permit or deny each action an identity or AI agent attempts on a Linux endpoint.
You'll set the technical direction for eBPF enforcement on Linux and own it end to end. That means hooks that make the right call in real time, across the fleet, without breaking legitimate workloads. Peer engineers own the macOS and Windows enforcement surfaces. You share one policy language, one event schema, and one userspace agent with them, but Linux kernel-space is yours.
You know this layer better than anyone. You want your code to be the thing that stops a compromised...
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