Datadog · 10 hours ago
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
Ohio, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud monitoring. The Engineering Manager for Security Incident Response will lead a team dedicated to improving incident response capabilities and ensuring the organization can effectively manage security-related incidents.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders who are passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog
Help engineers grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop
Serve as a hands-on leader during incidents
Lead under pressure, make decisions in ambiguous situations, and collaborate across several teams to drive towards resolution
Be on-call in our secondary rotation (along with around 5 other leaders), which is escalated to when responders need help with resourcing or decision-making
Ensure the team is triaging alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and to a high level so that we can respond to emerging threats
Partner with our Threat Detection team to tune and calibrate these signals so they’re delivering value
Build tools, systems, and processes to ensure Datadog is maturing its security incident response capabilities
Ensure that our operational capabilities are measured and communicated with stakeholders
Lead post-incident analysis efforts so that engineers at Datadog learn from security incidents, ensuring postmortems are blameless and actionable
Ensure we are capturing follow-up items that repair systematic issues and prevent repeated patterns
Partner with Datadog’s product management team by providing feedback on features and be willing to champion areas for improvement
Work with other security teams within Datadog to develop strategies and plans to prevent future security incidents
Qualification
Required
2-3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills
3-5 years experience working in incident response teams and large-scale incident response programs, with particular focus on security-related incidents and threats
Strong ownership and an ability to work outside your comfort zones to return Datadog to a stable state when failure does occur, even if it falls outside team boundaries
Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade-offs around implementation
Strong distributed systems knowledge
Strong stakeholder management skills, including empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English
Preferred
Experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring candidates into diverse and inclusive organizations
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
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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