Senior Application Security Engineer
Senior Application Security Engineer
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Job Description
As a Senior Application Security Engineer you will play a crucial role in enabling developers to build secure applications at Datadog. You will work in lockstep with Datadog engineering to establish securebydefault practices on widely adopted platforms. You will provide critical application security operational services such as security reviews developer security education and product security incident response. You have an incredible opportunity to leverage Datadogs robust product suite including Logs Dashboards Service Catalog and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to not only build out security services but also collaborate with engineers who champion strong security and reliability ownership. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly shape security practices across our rapidly evolving platforms.
What Youll Do:
- Get a deep understanding of Datadogs software development life cycle software supply chain build pipelines delivery mechanisms and configuration management
- Lead the development and implementation of securebydefault solutions across various applications and platforms
- Define standards write detections for deviations from secure defaults and improve adoption of our secure defaults
- Conduct threat modeling on new and existing products with engineering teams using frameworks such as STRIDE PASTA RTMP DREAD
- Work with engineering teams to align new features to achieve worldclass security.
- Identify top company threats across products and services and prioritize remediation efforts
- Empathize with the full spectrum of our customers and our engineers by advocating for effective solutions that scale with the needs of our business and our customers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for other teams regarding building delivering and deploying code at Datadog.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to team members and foster a positive team culture.
Who You Are:
- Background in software engineering or development in a collaborative environment. Go Python are preferred.
- Familiar with OWASP Top 10 XSS injection access control cryptography static analysis security testing (SAST) dynamic analysis security testing (DAST) security libraries
- You have experience implementing secure by default framework libraries and solutions
- You have experience collaborating with product managers and engineers to integrate security throughout the development lifecycle.
- You aim not only to identify security issues but also recommend and implement solutions.
- You have a proven track record of driving security initiatives with leadership and engineering buyin.
- You keep current with the latest security best practices technologies and emerging threats.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre 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 inhouse 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
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
