Datadog · 7 hours ago
Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection Engineering
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $240K/yrDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud monitoring. The Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection Engineering will develop high-quality threat detection content and lead the detection lifecycle while collaborating with various teams to enhance security products.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Learn everything about detecting threats in modern enterprise environments and pour it back into building a great threat management product for our customers
Owns the entire detection lifecycle from ideation to production and maintenance
Research and ideate the most ideal 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 functionally 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 responses workflows to enable the instrumentation of our agentic SOC architecture; identify inefficiencies in the AI capabilities and work through engineering to improve its level of precision
Identify and drive inefficiencies out of content development processes through the creation of innovative tooling, automation and rapid prototyping; shepherd platform issues impacting content development and user experience through engineering to completion
Evangelize yourself and the Datadog security brand through blog posts, documentation, webinars, and workshops. Present at conferences to highlight the challenges and successes in the field
Qualification
Required
A previous background in detection engineering, incident response or other security operations function
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 are familiar with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
Proficient understanding of Windows and Linux internals and associated telemetry to detect threats at runtime
Vast 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 quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security detections to make data-driven decisions
Thrive in navigating ambiguity and ability to bring fresh perspectives to the team
Benefits
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
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
Discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Founded in 2010
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
Recent News
2025-12-18
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