Developer Advocate - Security - job 1 of 3

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Team:

We are a growing global team of engineers, evangelists, and advocates across North America and Europe, who focus on enabling Datadog's user and developer community to build great things on Datadog's cloud monitoring platform. Our team works with freedom and autonomy, focusing on delivering high impact, quality content. 

The Opportunity:

In this role you will be hands-on with the great products we’re building to help our users stay safe in the cloud. In this role you’ll work in a variety of content mediums: blog posts, presentations, security research, and open source software to name a few of the options available. You will foster relationships with our Datadog users, developer communities, and the security community. Finally there will be many opportunities to help other Datadog employees build their own advocacy skills.  

You Will:

• Speak at conferences and meetups to build Datadog’s reputation as a leader in security.
• Partner with product engineering teams to improve the product and tell great stories
• Improve our user facing documentation 
• Design security simulations
• Collaborate with our community of open-source contributors
• Research and discover threats to Cloud Service Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), Linux workloads, containers, and Kubernetes
• Share our research through blogging, public speaking, webinars, and research papers
• Discover and demonstrate new attack and defense techniques and develop detection methods for them
• Collaborate with our in house Security Research Director and team to generate threat intelligence
• Work across the Datadog organization to help mentor and develop other security stories

Who You Are:

• You have publicly available samples of your work in the community. This could include writing, presentations, open source projects, or whitepapers
• You have experience in one or more security roles as a practitioner and are interested in developing content based on that experience.
• You are fluent-reading and writing in at least 2 programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python, Go, bash, powershell).
• You are comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure such as IaaS cloud services and containers.
• You enjoy self-driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages.
• You are able to transform dry technical topics into engaging, informative and interesting educational materials.

Bonus Points:

• Real-world SIEM and/or cloud-native security tool experience
• You have experience producing videos which distill complex technical concepts into content easily understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You already are an active member of the Security or language communities in your region
• Familiarity with SIEM, Compliance, Endpoint Monitoring
• Incident Response experience
• Experience building security solutions at scale

Why You Should Apply: 

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Is this you? Send your resume and links to your Github profile and public writing samples.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.