Sr. Software Engineer - Linux Sensor

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About The Role:
This is a Software Development Engineer (SDE) role in the engineering team that delivers the sensor (lightweight agent) on various container optimized Linux distros. This role will be part of the team designing and implementing new features in the sensor to secure cloud workloads. The work leverages eBPF and other technologies. These features will extend the power of the Falcon platform to provide seamless visibility, detection, and prevention for container processes running in orchestration environments like Kubernetes.

What You'll Do:
- Create and maintain high-performance linux system software components. Analyze complex software features, and build effective test strategies and test designs.
- Ensure systems and components reliability and performance through monitoring, testing, and debugging. Debug product issues found through test or customer cases to identify root cause and use the input to improve tests.
- Work closely with a team of engineers to support and maintain a culture of high product quality and excellence. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate sensor and cloud solutions. Work collaboratively with product and release management to control risk, improve quality, and streamline our release cycles
- Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance to team members. Participate in engineering best practices, including topics like secure coding, testing paradigms, debugging, performance measurement, code reviews, CI/CD and OS internals, to ensure that our sensor code is fast and reliable
- Lead strategic technical initiatives focusing on containers and orchestrators security in both public and private cloud
- Other projects as assigned