Datadog
Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response
Datadog, California, Missouri, United States, 65018
Engineering Manager – Security Incident Response
Join the Security Incident Response team within Datadog’s Resilience Engineering organization. Our mission is to keep Datadog safe by preparing for, efficiently responding to, and learning from security‑related incidents. We build tools, automation, and processes that enable our engineers and stakeholders to focus on the right problems and measure our impact.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog. Help engineers grow and continuously provide opportunities for development.
Serve as a hands‑on leader during incidents, making decisions under pressure and collaborating with multiple teams toward resolution. Participate in the secondary on‑call rotation and provide escalated support when needed.
Ensure the team triages alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and to a high level, partnering with the Threat Detection team to tune and calibrate signals that deliver value.
Build tools, systems, and processes to mature Datadog’s security incident response capabilities and measure operational effectiveness for stakeholders.
Lead post‑incident analysis so engineers learn from incidents, ensuring blameless and actionable post‑mortems and capturing follow‑up items that address systematic issues.
Partner with product management to provide feedback on features and champion improvement areas. Work with other security teams to develop strategies that prevent future incidents.
Who You Are
2–3 years experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Demonstrated career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring for diverse and inclusive teams.
3–5 years experience in incident response and large‑scale incident response programs with a focus on security‑related incidents and threats. Strong ownership and willingness to return Datadog to a stable state when failure occurs.
Technical pragmatism and ability to reason about trade‑offs; review decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
Strong distributed systems knowledge and credibility to provide suggestions on post‑mortem analysis for customer‑facing infrastructure.
Excellent stakeholder‑management skills, using empathy, collaboration, and communication in English to work cross‑team and drive shared goals.
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.
Inclusive company culture, 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.
Benefits and growth may vary by country of employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, which may include variable compensation. Compensation is based on skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog provides comprehensive benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan with match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
Estimated yearly salary: $187,000 – $240,000 USD.
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. Our mission is to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring across customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and industries. Together, we champion professionalism, diversity of thought, innovation, and continuous growth to empower people‑first teams.
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 consider qualified applicants without regard to criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Please refer to our Candidate Legal Notices for further information.
Privacy and AI Guidelines Any information you submit as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, 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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What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog. Help engineers grow and continuously provide opportunities for development.
Serve as a hands‑on leader during incidents, making decisions under pressure and collaborating with multiple teams toward resolution. Participate in the secondary on‑call rotation and provide escalated support when needed.
Ensure the team triages alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and to a high level, partnering with the Threat Detection team to tune and calibrate signals that deliver value.
Build tools, systems, and processes to mature Datadog’s security incident response capabilities and measure operational effectiveness for stakeholders.
Lead post‑incident analysis so engineers learn from incidents, ensuring blameless and actionable post‑mortems and capturing follow‑up items that address systematic issues.
Partner with product management to provide feedback on features and champion improvement areas. Work with other security teams to develop strategies that prevent future incidents.
Who You Are
2–3 years experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Demonstrated career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, OKRs, and hiring for diverse and inclusive teams.
3–5 years experience in incident response and large‑scale incident response programs with a focus on security‑related incidents and threats. Strong ownership and willingness to return Datadog to a stable state when failure occurs.
Technical pragmatism and ability to reason about trade‑offs; review decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, blending technical and business acumen.
Strong distributed systems knowledge and credibility to provide suggestions on post‑mortem analysis for customer‑facing infrastructure.
Excellent stakeholder‑management skills, using empathy, collaboration, and communication in English to work cross‑team and drive shared goals.
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.
Inclusive company culture, 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.
Benefits and growth may vary by country of employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, which may include variable compensation. Compensation is based on skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog provides comprehensive benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan with match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
Estimated yearly salary: $187,000 – $240,000 USD.
About Datadog Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. Our mission is to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring across customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and industries. Together, we champion professionalism, diversity of thought, innovation, and continuous growth to empower people‑first teams.
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 consider qualified applicants without regard to criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Please refer to our Candidate Legal Notices for further information.
Privacy and AI Guidelines Any information you submit as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, 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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