Datadog

Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management

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Boston, MA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Manage vulnerabilities from detection and impact assessment through risk-based prioritization, remediation, and verification.
  • Build AI-assisted automation, tools, services, and workflows to scale the vulnerability lifecycle.
  • Automate finding enrichment, ownership identification, fix recommendations or delivery, and outcome tracking through a “PRs, not tickets” approach.
  • Analyze recurring vulnerabilities and remediation failures to identify root causes and prevention opportunities earlier in the software development lifecycle.
  • Partner with security, product, platform, compliance, and engineering teams to implement scalable risk-reduction solutions.
  • Provide evidence and subject matter expertise for vulnerability management processes and controls across SOC2, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, and ISO frameworks.

Requirements

  • Experience identifying, prioritizing, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities in large software, cloud, or infrastructure environments.
  • Ability to independently solve complex technical problems using one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
  • Experience with cloud-native or multi-cloud environments, containers or orchestration platforms, infrastructure as code, and modern software-delivery workflows.
  • Experience reproducing and validating externally reported vulnerabilities.
  • Ability to make risk decisions using exploitability, exposure, technical context, data, and business impact.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, test assumptions, document tradeoffs, and adjust solutions as information changes.
  • Thoughtful use of AI-assisted tools with the ability to validate and explain their output.
  • Ability to influence security, engineering, product, and compliance teams through clear communication and technical credibility.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Candidates must be eligible for any required US government authorizations under export control regulations.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace with flexibility intended to support work-life harmony.
  • New hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Inclusive company culture, Community Guilds, and access to Inclusion Talks.
  • Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
  • Competitive global benefits that may vary by country and employment type.

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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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