Datadog · 6 days ago
Senior Security Engineer, Data Security
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$187K/yr - $240K/yr
4+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring. The Senior Security Engineer will work on the Internal Trust team to enhance data security, identifying risks and advocating for intelligent solutions to safeguard customer assets.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
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. We collaborate closely with product teams to provide feedback as users and share in the responsibility of alert review
Qualification
Required
At least 4 years of professional experience in a security-related role
Coding (most used languages are Go, Python, 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)
Preferred
Experience in data science, engineering, or stewardship
Experience in cloud or application security (scanning, security testing, code review, architecture, etc.)
Experience in privacy engineering
Experience in threat detection
Experience in incident response
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
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
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