Staff Security Engineer - Product Security

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 Opportunity:

As a Staff Security Engineer for the Product Security team, you will work with 6+ product security teams to protect and defend our products and infrastructure hosting our products. As a member of our team, you will engineer solutions to assess security, prevent attacks, remediate vulnerabilities and drive down risk at scale.

You will work with the product security teams to solve complex security challenges, drive company wide initiatives and assist in developing the product security roadmap and strategy. Our engineering team will work to build paved roads that establish secure-by-default configurations and secure baselines to ensure security by design and deployment.

You’ll join at an ideal time to make a big impact, the product is seeing very high growth, with many new features to build as well as a need for scaling up dramatically. 

You Will:

• Explore the security problem space and innovate solutions to solve systemic problems for production security, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, IAM, Cloud Security, Application Security and Supply Chain security etc
• Create alignment between security engineering and internal product teams on the security path forward
• Partner with internal product teams to provide security guidance, drive adoption of security initiatives and transform business needs into actionable strategy
• You will create and promote frameworks, patterns, and methodologies that reduce the risk across the company. 
• Participate in providing security design guidance for complex systems across the company

You Are:

• Proven experience building cutting-edge solutions
• You have designed capabilities that scale to support a large set of teams and built production-ready services
• Have a strong product security background
• Understand the value of driving efficiencies through automation, orchestration, and partnerships with external teams
• You have demonstrated experience in talking to customers and designing solutions that meet their needs
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when reviewing documentation

Bonus Points:

• Are passionate about building products that engineers love and believe in the true outcome of security
• You are confident representing your ideas and opinions in a manner that can be challenged and respond to feedback well

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 
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Rule (“EPT”)

At Datadog, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including your work history and professional experience. These considerations potentially can cause your compensation to vary. 

The Staff Security Engineer - Product Security role has an annual starting salary of $220,000, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may be higher depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about Benefits click here.

This is a remote position

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.

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