Datadog
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
Datadog, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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 realise 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 organisational strategy and culture.
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 passionate about building a culture of security and resilience.
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. Be on‑call in our secondary rotation.
Ensure the team triages 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. Capture follow‑up items that repair systemic issues and prevent repeated patterns.
Partner with Datadog’s product management team by providing feedback on features and 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 a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring into diverse and inclusive organisations.
3–5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident response programmes, focused on security‑related incidents and threats. Strong ownership and ability to work outside your comfort zone to return Datadog to a stable state.
Technical pragmatism and ability to help the team reason about trade‑offs. Often review decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
Strong distributed systems knowledge. Ability to provide credibility and suggestions based on post‑mortem review.
Strong stakeholder management skills; empathy, collaboration, and communication in English to work remotely with people across teams.
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 programme for in‑house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds (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
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. The widely estimated yearly salary for this role is $187,000 — $240,000 USD.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, colour, 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.
Datadog endeavours to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
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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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 realise 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 organisational strategy and culture.
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 passionate about building a culture of security and resilience.
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. Be on‑call in our secondary rotation.
Ensure the team triages 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. Capture follow‑up items that repair systemic issues and prevent repeated patterns.
Partner with Datadog’s product management team by providing feedback on features and 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 a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring into diverse and inclusive organisations.
3–5 years experience working in incident response teams and large‑scale incident response programmes, focused on security‑related incidents and threats. Strong ownership and ability to work outside your comfort zone to return Datadog to a stable state.
Technical pragmatism and ability to help the team reason about trade‑offs. Often review decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
Strong distributed systems knowledge. Ability to provide credibility and suggestions based on post‑mortem review.
Strong stakeholder management skills; empathy, collaboration, and communication in English to work remotely with people across teams.
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 programme for in‑house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds (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
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. The widely estimated yearly salary for this role is $187,000 — $240,000 USD.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, colour, 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.
Datadog endeavours to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
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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