Manager, Detection Engineering

Overview The Product Detection Engineering team at Datadog develops impactful threat and vulnerability detection content for Datadog’s portfolio of security products. As part of the Security Research organization, you will join a diverse team of hackers and builders who launch impactful security products and research via cross-company collaboration, partnerships with the security community and open source initiatives.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager 1 to lead the Product Detection Engineering team at Datadog on our threat detection products. Our Cloud SIEM product serves as a threat management suite to help our customers detect, investigate and respond to security incidents through a unified observability platform. We’re taking a new approach to cloud security at Datadog by leveraging detailed observability data in a cloud-native way.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That\'s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

What You’ll Do Serve as a player-coach to lead and develop a team of talented security practitioners who are responsible for building and continuously improving high quality integrations and associated detections in the Datadog Security products

Track, research, and experiment with the latest tactics, techniques & procedures for attacking and defending cloud runtime environments. Operationalize that experience into actionable security content.

Guide the team on designing and building high quality security integration content across our Logs, Cloud SIEM, Cloud Security (Workload Protection) and Workflow products

Partner with Datadog’s Product Management team to create, prioritize and provide feedback on product features and a roadmap and backlog of detection and response content

Create, track and iterate on metrics that showcase the value of your product content to leadership across Datadog

Collaborate with highly technical customers, listen to their needs, and work with your team to help solve their problems at scale

Create, write, and deliver content for our community, such as blog posts, documentation, webinars, and workshops. Present at conferences to highlight the challenges and successes in the field

Who You Are A proven, empathetic and motivating leader with experience in building out security engineering, detection engineering or security research teams

Passionate about building products that make a meaningful impact on a customer’s security posture

Understand the four Cs of cloud nativity security, cloud identity and access management, and how these concepts are implemented in at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Expert in leveraging a variety of telemetry from different sources such as cloud audit logs, identity logs, endpoint logs, SaaS application logs, and many more to generate meaningful security signal

History of evaluating REST APIs for data integrations or other data engineering experience

You have a proven background in measuring the efficacy of security content and communicating those metrics to stakeholders

You have demonstrated experience in talking to customers and designing solutions that meet their needs at scale

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That\'s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth 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 in-house networking

An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog (NASDAQ : DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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