Senior Engineer - Security Incident Response - NorAm

The Security Incident Response team at Datadog plays a vital role in protecting the company from security threats. As a Senior Engineer in this team, you'll be responsible for identifying, triaging, and responding to a wide array of security threats, ensuring swift containment and control. You'll build tools and systems to support the team's mission, analyze security incidents, and work cross-functionally to implement long-term remediations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Investigating, containing, and remediating security threats
• Triaging automated alerts in Datadog Cloud SIEM
• Supporting other teams in understanding potential security impacts
• Building tools and systems to improve IR capabilities
• Conducting post-incident analysis and ensuring actionable postmortems
• Developing strategies to prevent future security incidents
• Creating training and drills for the incident response team
• Staying up-to-date with the latest security trends and technologies

The ideal candidate will have:

• Around 5 years of experience in security incident response
• Strong understanding of security technologies and systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and distributed systems in the cloud
• Experience with post-incident analysis and writing postmortems
• Ability to build and maintain tools (mainly using Go and Python)
• Strong ownership and ability to work outside comfort zones
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Datadog offers a competitive salary range of $187,000 - $240,000 USD, along with equity and comprehensive benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Join Datadog to be part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where you can solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another's successes.