Sysdig operates a runtime security platform for Kubernetes and container environments, built on Falco (open-source threat detection) and eBPF kernel instrumentation. The stack reveals a company deeply embedded in infrastructure observability—Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, and custom performance testing frameworks dominate—while a 5-to-1 engineering-to-sales ratio and active hiring across distributed European and Asia-Pacific regions suggest infrastructure-first go-to-market. Pain-point data shows persistent friction around compliance complexity and enterprise support demands, not platform capability gaps.
Sysdig is a runtime cloud security platform serving security and engineering teams at mid-to-large enterprises running containerized workloads on AWS, GCP, and Azure. The product surface spans real-time threat detection, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation across Kubernetes clusters and microservices. Founded by open-source contributors (Falco, Wireshark), the company integrates kernel-level visibility (eBPF) with agentic AI to correlate attack signals across identities, workloads, and services. Based in San Francisco with 501–1,000 employees and active hiring across 15 countries, Sysdig operates a distributed engineering organization anchored in North America and Europe.
Sysdig uses Falco for threat detection, Kubernetes orchestration, AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms, eBPF for kernel instrumentation, Elasticsearch for data indexing, Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, PostgreSQL for transactional data, and Redis for caching. Frontend is React; backend is polyglot (Python, Java, Go, Rust, C++).
Active projects include real-time threat detection and response, container and Kubernetes security architecture, cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) platform layer, distributed asset metadata analysis, and managed service capabilities for IBM Cloud environments.
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