Senior Security Engineer, Data Security

The Team:

On Datadog’s Internal Trust team, our goal is to give our customers complete confidence that their data is safe and secure. We aim to eliminate the possibility of malicious access while building transparent and honest customer relationships. The foundation of this work is a pragmatic approach to the security controls we build that protect access to customer data.

What You'll Do:

You’ll join a small team focused on Internal Trust, helping us add protections around how we collect, store, and use our customers’ data. We’re flexible in our approach: you’ll have the opportunity to build through full-stack engineering, customer-facing product design, threat detection, privacy engineering, policy and process improvements, and more.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

You’ll have the opportunity for impact in multiple areas:

The focus areas for our team include the following. As a senior engineer, you’ll define your priorities and communicate your plans to achieve maximum impact in these areas.

• Identifying risks to customer data: Build tools to survey the state of data storage and access at Datadog. Discover unsafe usage, communicate the risk, and assist teams to find safer solutions that fit their needs.

• Trust, transparency, and control: Coordinate between different parts of the organization to identify risky access to customer data, and advocate for intelligent solutions that safeguard customer assets. Build features that share actionable information with customers and enable customers to control their own security in terms of our access to their data.

• Engineering and advocacy: Propose, champion, and build new security-related features to deliver on our goals. We provide direct engineering effort within other teams’ codebases which allows us to share ownership of security goals.

• Improve the security of our internal tools: Assess security maturity, build guardrails to ensure safety and consistency for our internal support processes, and directly build auditing and alerting in collaboration with product teams.

• Detection & Response: Build scalable detection rules and response processes related to misuse of access, process mistakes, external access to internal infrastructure, etc. We collaborate closely with product teams to provide feedback as users and share in the responsibility of alert review.

Finally, we collaborate extensively with our peer teams, so you’ll have many chances to learn about or work directly on account safety (logins, credentials, etc.), platform integrity (abuse, malicious content, security notifications), application security (security architecture and code review), and more.

Who You Are:

You have at least 4 years of professional experience in a security-related role, with a focus on:

• Coding (our most used languages are Go, Python, and React/Typescript)

• Design and development of performant, reliable systems for automated scanning or integration between third-party APIs

• Written and verbal communication skills (especially documentation, security advocacy, and project management)

Bonus points if you have experience in:

• Data science, engineering, or stewardship

• Cloud or Application Security (scanning, security testing, code review, architecture, etc.)

• Privacy engineering

• Threat detection

• Incident response

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.