Datadog
Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection Engineering
Datadog, New York, New York, us, 10261
Senior Security Engineer – Threat Detection Engineering
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Senior Security Engineer – Threat Detection Engineering
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The Security Research team at Datadog develops impactful security detection content for Datadog’s Security platform. You will join a diverse team of hackers and builders who launch impactful security products and research via cross‑company collaboration, partnerships with the security community and open source initiatives.
As a Senior Security Engineer – Detection Engineering, you will deliver high quality threat detection content sourcing a wide variety of data, especially cloud native datasets and workload runtime events, to detect threats for our customers in near real‑time. You will creatively identify ways to provide detection coverage across different technology classes such as public cloud platforms, SaaS applications, endpoint and network technologies, and many more.
You’ll apply data‑driven insights to generate the highest quality security signal for Datadog customers. As an expert in threat investigations, you may even codify your expertise into our agentic SOC capability. Additionally, you’ll serve as the voice of the customer to continuously provide product feedback through our partner product teams.
What You’ll Do
Learn everything about detecting threats in modern enterprise environments and pour it back into building a great threat management product for our customers
Own 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 response workflows to enable the instrumentation of our agentic SOC architecture; identify inefficiencies in the AI capabilities and work through engineering to improve their 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 the Datadog security brand through blog posts, documentation, webinars and workshops; present at conferences to highlight the challenges and successes in the field
Who You Are
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 familiarity with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
Proficient with 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‑as‑code approach
Basic proficiency with Python, Golang or other programming languages
Experience measuring the quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security detections to make data‑driven decisions
Thrives in navigating ambiguity and brings fresh perspectives to the team
Benefits and Growth
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
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
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.
To conform to U.S. export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. government. This job may require such authorizations for certain locations.
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, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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Senior Security Engineer – Threat Detection Engineering
role at
Datadog .
The Security Research team at Datadog develops impactful security detection content for Datadog’s Security platform. You will join a diverse team of hackers and builders who launch impactful security products and research via cross‑company collaboration, partnerships with the security community and open source initiatives.
As a Senior Security Engineer – Detection Engineering, you will deliver high quality threat detection content sourcing a wide variety of data, especially cloud native datasets and workload runtime events, to detect threats for our customers in near real‑time. You will creatively identify ways to provide detection coverage across different technology classes such as public cloud platforms, SaaS applications, endpoint and network technologies, and many more.
You’ll apply data‑driven insights to generate the highest quality security signal for Datadog customers. As an expert in threat investigations, you may even codify your expertise into our agentic SOC capability. Additionally, you’ll serve as the voice of the customer to continuously provide product feedback through our partner product teams.
What You’ll Do
Learn everything about detecting threats in modern enterprise environments and pour it back into building a great threat management product for our customers
Own 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 response workflows to enable the instrumentation of our agentic SOC architecture; identify inefficiencies in the AI capabilities and work through engineering to improve their 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 the Datadog security brand through blog posts, documentation, webinars and workshops; present at conferences to highlight the challenges and successes in the field
Who You Are
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 familiarity with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
Proficient with 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‑as‑code approach
Basic proficiency with Python, Golang or other programming languages
Experience measuring the quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security detections to make data‑driven decisions
Thrives in navigating ambiguity and brings fresh perspectives to the team
Benefits and Growth
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
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
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.
To conform to U.S. export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. government. This job may require such authorizations for certain locations.
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, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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