Datadog
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
Datadog, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
The Security Incident Response team is part of our Resilience Engineering organization and plays a vital role in keeping Datadog safe. Our goal is to ensure that Datadog is prepared for and efficiently responds to security‑related incidents, ensuring that threats to our systems and data are contained as fast as possible. We also partner with teams after incidents by leveraging them as opportunities to learn. By focusing on our ability to adapt and fix systemic problems, we contribute towards a larger culture of building resilience in our people and systems.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a talented group of incident responders, build tools and automation to streamline our efficiency, work with stakeholders across the company, and shape our organizational strategy and culture.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders, helping engineers grow and providing opportunities for development.
Serve as a hands‑on leader during incidents, making decisions in ambiguous situations and collaborating across teams to drive resolution.
Ensure the team triages alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and at a high level, partnering with the Threat Detection team to tune and calibrate signals.
Build tools, systems, and processes that mature Datadog’s security incident response capabilities and measure operational performance.
Lead post‑incident analysis to ensure blameless, actionable post‑mortems and capture follow‑up items that repair systemic issues.
Partner with product management and other security teams to provide feedback on features, champion improvements, and develop strategies to prevent future incidents.
Who You Are
2‑3 years experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship, career development, performance management, and hiring in diverse and inclusive organizations.
3‑5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident programs, focused on security‑related incidents and threats.
Technical pragmatism, the ability to reason about trade‑offs, review senior engineer decisions, and blend technical and business acumen.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems and the ability to build credibility with technical teams through post‑mortems and suggestions.
Excellent stakeholder management, empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English for remote work across teams.
Benefits and Growth
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
In‑departmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking
An inclusive company culture and access to Employee Resource Groups (Community Guilds)
Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
Free, global mental‑health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth, profitability, and innovation. Built by engineers for engineers, Datadog enables digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring for organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. We champion professional development, diversity of thought, and a people‑first culture that empowers continuous growth.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog 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.
Privacy and AI Guidelines Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a talented group of incident responders, build tools and automation to streamline our efficiency, work with stakeholders across the company, and shape our organizational strategy and culture.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders, helping engineers grow and providing opportunities for development.
Serve as a hands‑on leader during incidents, making decisions in ambiguous situations and collaborating across teams to drive resolution.
Ensure the team triages alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and at a high level, partnering with the Threat Detection team to tune and calibrate signals.
Build tools, systems, and processes that mature Datadog’s security incident response capabilities and measure operational performance.
Lead post‑incident analysis to ensure blameless, actionable post‑mortems and capture follow‑up items that repair systemic issues.
Partner with product management and other security teams to provide feedback on features, champion improvements, and develop strategies to prevent future incidents.
Who You Are
2‑3 years experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship, career development, performance management, and hiring in diverse and inclusive organizations.
3‑5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident programs, focused on security‑related incidents and threats.
Technical pragmatism, the ability to reason about trade‑offs, review senior engineer decisions, and blend technical and business acumen.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems and the ability to build credibility with technical teams through post‑mortems and suggestions.
Excellent stakeholder management, empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English for remote work across teams.
Benefits and Growth
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
In‑departmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking
An inclusive company culture and access to Employee Resource Groups (Community Guilds)
Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
Free, global mental‑health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth, profitability, and innovation. Built by engineers for engineers, Datadog enables digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring for organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. We champion professional development, diversity of thought, and a people‑first culture that empowers continuous growth.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog 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.
Privacy and AI Guidelines Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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