Datadog
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 toward 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 committed to driving Datadog’s incident response capabilities to the next level. You will work with key stakeholders across Datadog to ensure priorities are aligned and improvements are effectively measured. As part of a leadership team, you will actively shape our organizational strategy and culture.
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. 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 toward resolution. Be on‑call in our secondary rotation (along with around 5 other leaders), escalated 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 are 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. Capture follow‑up items that repair systematic issues and prevent repeated patterns.
Partner with Datadog’s product management team by providing feedback on features and championing 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. Strong ownership and an ability to work outside your comfort zone 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. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
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. We frequently read postmortems and offer suggestions, so you will need a solid technical baseline.
Strong stakeholder management skills. This involves using empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams. We frequently collaborate with stakeholders across Datadog and need to motivate teams to work together toward a shared goal.
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 with access to Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions.
Free, global mental‑health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
Competitive global benefits package.
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.
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.
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 for our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.
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As an Engineering Manager, you will help us realize this mission by leading a talented group of engineers committed to driving Datadog’s incident response capabilities to the next level. You will work with key stakeholders across Datadog to ensure priorities are aligned and improvements are effectively measured. As part of a leadership team, you will actively shape our organizational strategy and culture.
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. 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 toward resolution. Be on‑call in our secondary rotation (along with around 5 other leaders), escalated 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 are 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. Capture follow‑up items that repair systematic issues and prevent repeated patterns.
Partner with Datadog’s product management team by providing feedback on features and championing 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. Strong ownership and an ability to work outside your comfort zone 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. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
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. We frequently read postmortems and offer suggestions, so you will need a solid technical baseline.
Strong stakeholder management skills. This involves using empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams. We frequently collaborate with stakeholders across Datadog and need to motivate teams to work together toward a shared goal.
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 with access to Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions.
Free, global mental‑health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
Competitive global benefits package.
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.
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.
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 for our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.
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