Security Engineer - Incident Response Engineering

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:

We’re looking for a Security Engineer for the Security Incident Response Engineering team to build tool sets, automate workflows to take Datadog’s response capabilities to the next level. The mission of Security Incident Response Engineering is to rapidly respond to, and contain breach attempts from threat actors in a highly automated fashion.You will build and own solutions to quickly contain and eradicate threats, and streamline our security incident response processes with the business. You will establish metrics that demonstrate continuous improvements of the Security Incident Response Engineering capabilities and execute on your proposed strategy for improvements.

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:

• Improve the company’s ability to respond to threats through technology selection, internal product development and implementations with a heavy emphasis on automation of manual tasks and processes.
• Respond to Security Incidents of varying severities and complexity
• Develop processes, procedures and playbooks that will be used during an incident response process
• Partner with Datadog’s product management team by becoming a customer of our security products and champion areas of improvement
• Detailed process management to ensure audit trails of activities are reviewed, follow policy and audit requirements
• Represent Datadog in the digital forensics and incident response community

You Are:

• Skilled in programming using Python and/or Go
• Knowledgeable in designing tools, systems, and automated workflows for Incident Response programs
• Experienced in responding to security incidents
• A strong communicator and speaker
• Willing to work in past-paced, high-growth environment

Bonus Points:

• CISSP, CISM, GCIH, or similar certifications
• Built out detection and response programs for a SaaS or cloud-native company
• Led large incident response situations in the past
• You are confident representing your ideas and opinions in a manner that can be challenged and respond to feedback well
• Experience with speaking in public forums

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 Security Engineer - Incident Response Engineering position has an annual starting salary of $135,000, 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.

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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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