Datadog · 17 hours ago
Field CISO
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$280K/yr - $380K/yr
15+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud migration. They are seeking a Field CISO to lead their go-to-market technical strategy in the North America region, particularly emphasizing information security and building trusted relationships with customers.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Demonstrate Datadog's platform as well as thought leadership in modern Security and Observability, emphasizing our advanced security solutions, industry best practices, and dedication to providing organizations with superior security posture and management of their at scale environments
Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect CISOs and security executives on security ROI, value realization, and vulnerability analysis
Identifies industry-specific security threats and trends and their impact during Customer engagements, feeding the top-of-funnel for Product, GTM, BVA, and Architecture teams
Strategically guide CISO/CIO/CTO/CEO-level customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their security adoption journey, investment, and operationalizing of security and observability
Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering, and Marketing in providing high-quality security-focused technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers
Lead security architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how Datadog meets the security needs of strategic customers
Participate in Executive Brief conversations in Datadog’s Executive Briefing Center (EBC) with high-profile customers and prospects about overall security architecture, Security Best Practices, and industry security trends
Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO/CISO teams with a focus on security expertise
Qualification
Required
Strong experience of at least 15+ years with Enterprise Security architecture at scale
Ability to map modern security-centric architectures to real-world use cases
Deep knowledge of the security and observability space
Knowledge of cloud and application security
Understanding of technological shifts in the information security space
Able to think long-term and creatively about a wide variety of security and business challenges
Experienced in interacting and influencing key security stakeholders (VP+ and CISO/CIO/CTO level) in large Enterprise organizations
Hands-on technologist with a strong security background
Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences
Comfortable discussing complex security details
Ability to brief executives or non-technical personas on security topics
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to link security product functionality to business objectives
Ability to demonstrate security value realization and ROI
Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
Preferred
Master's degree
Benefits
Best-in-breed onboarding
Generous global benefits
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
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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