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Datadog

Senior Application Security Engineer

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about 2 hours ago
New York, NY, USA
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Base Salary

$187k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure-by-default platform controls to enhance API and service security.
  • Build and evolve security systems and enforcement layers for distributed systems.
  • Define and standardize security patterns for broad adoption across services.
  • Integrate security controls into developer workflows and infrastructure.
  • Identify recurring security risks and create reusable platform primitives.
  • Partner with engineering teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle.
  • Contribute to threat modeling and security reviews for systemic improvements.
  • Leverage application telemetry to assess and improve security posture.

Requirements

  • Strong background in software engineering with experience in distributed systems (Go or Python preferred).
  • Experience designing and implementing security controls or systems.
  • Experience building shared infrastructure or enforcement mechanisms for engineering teams.
  • Understanding of modern systems handling identity, communication, and trust boundaries.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and across new problem spaces.
  • Ability to make pragmatic security decisions balancing risk, usability, and scalability.
  • Driven to identify security issues and design solutions that prevent them at scale.

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for networking.
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds for employee resource groups.
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions.
  • Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
  • Competitive global benefits.

Tech Stack

GoPython

Categories

Security