Overview Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection Engineering at Datadog. The Security Research team develops impactful security detection content for Datadog’s Security platform. You will join a diverse team of hackers and builders who launch impactful security products and research via cross-company collaboration, partnerships with the security community and open source initiatives. As a Senior Security Engineer - Detection Engineering, you will deliver high quality threat detection content sourcing a wide variety of data, especially cloud native datasets and workload runtime events, to detect threats for our customers 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 research attacker techniques against modern enterprise technologies and other attack surfaces to evangelize your findings with the community. You’ll apply data-driven insights to generate the highest quality security signal for Datadog customers. As an expert in threat investigations, you may even codify your expertise into our agentic SOC capability. Additionally, you’ll serve as the voice of the customer to continuously provide product feedback through our partner product teams. At Datadog, we value office culture and collaboration. We operate as a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony. What You’ll Do Learn everything about detecting threats in modern enterprise environments and contribute to building a great threat management product for our customers Own the entire detection lifecycle from ideation to production and maintenance Research and ideate the most effective way to operationalize telemetry end-to-end from our data platforms into our threat detection products as detections at scale across thousands of customers Mentor and support junior security engineers on the team while leading one or more detection work streams Partner with product management, engineering, security research and customers to develop roadmaps of detection content for various integrations and other security concerns Design security investigation and response workflows to enable instrumentation of our SOC architecture; identify inefficiencies in AI capabilities and collaborate with engineering to improve precision Identify and drive improvements in content development processes through tooling, automation and rapid prototyping; shepherd platform issues impacting content development and user experience through engineering to completion Evangelize the Datadog security brand through blog posts, documentation, webinars, and workshops; present at conferences to highlight challenges and successes in the field Who You Are Background in detection engineering, incident response or other security operations Experience operating in at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform) Understanding of modern cloud native attacker techniques and familiarity with controls to prevent and detect these attacks Proficient understanding of Windows and Linux internals and telemetry to detect threats at runtime Experience detecting and responding to threats at scale through a wide variety of technologies and datasets using a modern detection engineering approach (detection-as-code) Basic proficiency with Python, Golang or other programming languages Experience measuring the effectiveness of detections to make data-driven decisions Ability to navigate ambiguity and bring fresh perspectives to the team Benefits and Growth New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Mentor and buddy program for internal networking Inclusive culture with employee resource groups Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ Competitive global benefits Benefits listed above may vary by country and employment type. The role includes a competitive salary and equity package with potential variable compensation. Compensation details are based on experience and qualifications, and Datadog offers comprehensive benefits including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) and match, paid time off, and more. Salary (indicative) 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 growth and profitability. We enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring across customer tech stacks. Datadog supports professional development, diversity, and innovation in a collaborative, people-first culture. Learn more about Datadog Life on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. Equal Opportunity Datadog is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories where permitted by law. See our Candidate Legal Notices for reference. For accessibility or accommodation requests during the application process, please contact us through the provided form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about application status.

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