Senior Security Engineer Threat Detection

@ Datadog

About the Role

The Security Research team at Datadog develops impactful security detection content for Datadog’s Security platform. As a Senior Security Engineer Threat Detection, you will deliver high quality threat detection content using a wide variety of data sources, especially cloud native datasets and workload runtime events, to identify threats in near real-time.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the entire detection lifecycle from ideation to production.
• Research and operationalize telemetry for threat detection at scale.
• Mentor junior security engineers and lead detection work streams.
• Partner with product management, engineering, and customers for roadmap development.
• Design security investigation workflows and refine agentic SOC architecture.
• Create innovative tooling, automation, and rapid prototyping for process improvement.
• Evangelize security brand through blogs, webinars, workshops, and conferences.

Who You Are

You have a background in detection engineering, incident response, or security operations with experience operating in at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with cloud native technologies. You understand modern attacker techniques, Windows and Linux internals, and have proven experience in detecting and responding to threats with a detection-as-code approach. Basic programming skills in Python, Golang or similar are required.

Benefits & Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development and product training.
• Mentor and buddy programs for in-house networking.
• An inclusive company culture with active Community Guilds.
• Comprehensive health, dental, parental, and mental health benefits.

Key skills/competency

Security Research, Threat Detection, Cloud Native, Incident Response, Telemetry, SOC, Automation, Mentorship, Python, Golang