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Salary: USD 192,000 - 240,000 / annual
Datadog's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help defend the organization against cybersecurity threats and maintain customer trust by protecting their data. You will work cross-functionally to identify, triage, and respond to a wide range of threats, containing incidents as quickly as possible while contributing to tools and systems that improve the team's effectiveness.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with Cyber Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering teams to identify threats and ensure accurate, high-signal detections
- Triaging escalated alerts to determine if a security incident is occurring or may occur imminently
- Responding to security incidents as an incident commander or responder
- Building tools and automations to eliminate repetitive processes and improve efficiency
- Improving overall security posture through post-incident reviews, tabletop exercises, purple team exercises, and process/runbook improvements
- Participating in a light on-call rotation
Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture for collaboration and creativity while enabling work-life harmony.
REQUIREMENTS:
- At least 5 years of experience in security incident response, threat hunting, security operations, cloud security, or other operational security domains
- Experience with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform
- Strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and corresponding defensive controls; actively stays current with threat landscape via blogs, whitepapers, and conference talks
- Experience using a wide range of technologies and datasets to detect threats in cloud and enterprise environments
- Experience building and supporting tools for incident response and forensic use cases using Python, Go, or similar programming languages
Datadog values diverse backgrounds and encourages applications from those passionate about technology who may not meet all qualifications on day one.
