Datadog

Senior Security Engineer, Offensive Security

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Base Salary

$195k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute red team engagements end-to-end against cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and corporate environments.
  • Build and maintain custom offensive tooling, automation frameworks, payloads, evasion capabilities, and engagement infrastructure.
  • Use automation and AI to improve reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, reporting, and offensive operations efficiency.
  • Partner with Detection & Response on purple team exercises to validate detection logic, improve alert fidelity, and influence threat models.
  • Communicate offensive findings and drive remediation with defensive security and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Require 5+ years of hands-on offensive security experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation.
  • Require production-quality coding ability in Python, Go, or similar and the ability to build custom tools and automate workflows.
  • Require deep expertise in at least two of macOS security, Linux security, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines.
  • Require experience developing evasion techniques against modern defensive controls and understanding blue-team detection practices.
  • Require strong communication skills and the ability to scope and drive projects from prototype through deployment and validation.
  • Preferred candidates can operate against mature, well-defended environments and work independently with ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace focused on office collaboration and work-life harmony.
  • New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous professional development, product training, career pathing, and an intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Inclusive culture with access to Community Guilds and employee resource groups.
  • Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6 or older, with benefits varying by country and employment type.
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
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About Datadog

1,001-5,000 employees

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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