Senior Security Engineer, Internal Trust

On Datadog’s Internal Trust team, our goal is to give our customers complete confidence that their data is safe and secure.

You’ll join a small team focused on Internal Trust, helping us add protections around how we collect, store, and use our customers’ data.

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

The focus areas for our team include the following.

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.

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 Python, Go, 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.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$187,000—$240,000 USD