Datadog

Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team

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Base Salary

$192k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Cyber Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering teams to identify threats and maintain accurate, high-signal detections.
  • Triage escalated alerts and determine whether security incidents are occurring or imminent.
  • Respond to security incidents as an incident commander or incident responder.
  • Build tools and automations to eliminate repetitive incident response processes.
  • Conduct post-incident reviews, tabletop exercises, and purple team exercises.
  • Improve security processes, runbooks, and the organization’s overall defensive posture.
  • Participate in a light on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in security incident response, threat hunting, security operations, cloud security, or another operational security domain.
  • Experience with at least one public cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures and corresponding defensive controls.
  • Experience using diverse technologies and datasets to detect threats in cloud and enterprise environments.
  • Experience building and supporting incident response and forensic tools using Python, Go, or similar programming languages.
  • Ability to stay current with the threat landscape through blogs, whitepapers, and conference talks.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace with an emphasis on office collaboration and culture.
  • Competitive salary and equity package, including new-hire RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, career pathing, best-in-class onboarding, and internal mentoring and buddy programs.
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.
Datadog

About Datadog

10,000+ employees

Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.

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