Datadog is hiring: Security Engineer II - Cloud Security in New York

Overview

Security Engineer II - Cloud Security at Datadog. The Security Research team creates and ships security detection content for Datadog’s cloud security products, collaborating across teams and with the security community.

What You’ll Do

• Continuously learn about detecting attack paths, identity risks, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities in cloud-native environments and contribute to a high-quality cloud security product.
• Leverage Open Policy Agent (OPA) to build and maintain contextualized detections for CSPM and Infrastructure-As-Code detection products using OPA’s Rego language; test detections end-to-end with Terraform.
• Develop risk relationships between a variety of cloud-native technologies serving our Cloud Security Graph.
• Model cloud-native technical controls across governmental and commercial compliance frameworks and security benchmarks to help customers achieve compliant and secure cloud configurations.
• Partner with product management, engineering, security research, and customers to develop content roadmaps for cloud security and compliance concerns.
• Identify and drive efficiencies in content development through tooling and automation; shepherd platform issues impacting content development and user experience to completion.
• Evangelize the Datadog security brand through blog posts, documentation, webinars, and workshops; present at conferences to highlight challenges and successes.

Who You Are

• Background in cloud security engineering, detection engineering, or related field.
• Experience operating in at least one public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform).
• Understanding of modern cloud-native attacker techniques and familiar with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks.
• Understanding of compliance and security frameworks and benchmarks mapped to technical controls (e.g., CSPM).
• Basic proficiency with Golang and Python.
• Experience measuring the effectiveness of security controls to inform data-driven decisions.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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 and access to Employee Resource Groups.
• Inclusion talks and mental health benefits for employees and dependents.
• Competitive global benefits.

Benefits may vary by country and employment type.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on skills, qualifications, and experience.

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS company focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age through digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring. Learn more about Datadog, its culture, and life at the company.

Equal Opportunity

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone 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 regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. If you need accessibility assistance, please contact us via our accommodation form.