Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

The Security Research Team at Datadog conducts cutting-edge research in Cloud Security, Threat Research, Application Security, and Detection Engineering. The team uses this research to track the evolving threat landscape, improve Datadog's security posture and our customer's security posture, and to help the community via publications, disclosures and information sharing. As a part of the Security Research organization, you will join a diverse team of hackers, researchers, and builders who consistently deliver industry-leading research.
The Opportunity:
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will lead the delivery of detection content across a wide array of log integrations, with a heightened focus on cloud native datasets, ensuring the detection of threats for Datadog in near real-time. You will creatively identify ways to provide detection coverage across different technology classes such as public cloud platforms, SaaS applications, endpoint and network technologies, and many more. You will work closely with the internal response team during security incidents, leveraging your expertise and knowledge of our space to help direct teams on how to appropriately hunt and respond to threats in real time .Additionally, you'll serve as the voice of the customer to continuously provide product feedback through our partner product teams.
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.
What You'll Do:

• Implement the detection engineering lifecycle to detect threats in Datadog infrastructure while building the detection backlog
• Build, maintain and adjust detection engineering metrics to communicate with stakeholders outside our organization and to drive change when inefficiencies are found
• Research, ideate and implement the most efficient way to operationalize log telemetry end-to-end from our Logs platform into our security products
• Participate in emerging events, such as emerging vulnerabilities or threats, to help our incident response team hunt and contain threats at Datadog
• Identify and drive inefficiencies out of content development processes through the creation of innovative tooling and automation
• Develop threat hunts based on scenarios captured from open-source and closed-source intelligence sources to identify gaps in telemetry, detection or unearth potential intrusions
• Partner with our software engineering teams to drive a roadmap for new tools and services to increase the velocity of detection engineering

Who You Are:

• A previous background in detection engineering, cloud security engineering or other operational security function
• Experience operating in at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
• Advanced understanding of modern cloud native attacker techniques and are familiar with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
• Proficient understanding of Linux internals and associated telemetry to detect threats at runtime
• Vast experience detecting threats in a modern cloud focused environment through a wide variety of technologies and datasets using a modern detection engineering approach
• Basic proficiency with Python, Golang or other programming languages
• Experience measuring the quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security controls to make data-driven decisions

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:

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$187,000 - $240,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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