Datadog
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
Datadog, Los Angeles, California, United States
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
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Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
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The Security Incident Response team is part of our Resilience Engineering organisation 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 help us realize this mission by leading a talented group of engineers who are committed to driving Datadog’s incident response capabilities to the next level. Along with building tools and automation to streamline our efficiency, you will work with key stakeholders across Datadog to ensure we are focusing our efforts in the right areas and are measuring how we improve. As part of a leadership team, you will be active in shaping our organizational strategy and culture.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture – the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work‑life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders who are passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog.
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.
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.
Who You Are
2‑3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally, candidates will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring candidates into diverse and inclusive organizations.
3‑5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident response programs, with particular focus on security‑related incidents and threats.
Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade‑offs around implementation. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, and you will need to blend both your technical and business acumen to do this.
Strong distributed systems knowledge. While we are not in the critical path for customer‑facing infrastructure, we support people who are, so we need to leverage our technical experience to build credibility.
Strong stakeholder management skills. This will involve using your empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. 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
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
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best‑in‑class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $187,000—$240,000 USD
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people‑first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
role at
Datadog
The Security Incident Response team is part of our Resilience Engineering organisation 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 help us realize this mission by leading a talented group of engineers who are committed to driving Datadog’s incident response capabilities to the next level. Along with building tools and automation to streamline our efficiency, you will work with key stakeholders across Datadog to ensure we are focusing our efforts in the right areas and are measuring how we improve. As part of a leadership team, you will be active in shaping our organizational strategy and culture.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture – the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work‑life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders who are passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog.
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.
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.
Who You Are
2‑3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally, candidates will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring candidates into diverse and inclusive organizations.
3‑5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident response programs, with particular focus on security‑related incidents and threats.
Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade‑offs around implementation. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, and you will need to blend both your technical and business acumen to do this.
Strong distributed systems knowledge. While we are not in the critical path for customer‑facing infrastructure, we support people who are, so we need to leverage our technical experience to build credibility.
Strong stakeholder management skills. This will involve using your empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. 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
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
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best‑in‑class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $187,000—$240,000 USD
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people‑first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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