Security Engineer II - Cloud Security
Security Engineer II - Cloud Security
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The Security Research team at Datadog creates and ships impactful security detection content for Datadogs portfolio of cloud 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.
As a Security Engineer II for Cloud Security you will deliver novel detection content to our cloud security products in order to notify customers when risky cloud configurations cloud identity risks and potential attack paths are detected in their cloud environments using a plethora of observability and security data. You will creatively identify ways to provide coverage of security frameworks and benchmarks to our customers and identify areas of improvement for technology process and detection for Datadog. Together with your team you will research cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and misconfigurations as well as attacker techniques against cloud-native technologies and evangelize your findings with the community. Youll apply data-driven insights to generate the highest quality security findings for Datadog customers. Additionally youll serve as the voice of the customer to continuously provide product feedback through our partner product teams.
At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Continuously learn everything about detecting attack paths identity risks misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in cloud-native environments and pour it back into building a great cloud security product for our customers
- Leverage Open Policy Agent (OPA) to build and maintain highly contextualized detections for our Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Infrastructure-As-Code detection products using OPAs Rego policy language to protect Datadog customer cloud environments and test those detections end-to-end with Terraform
- Develop risk relationships between a variety of cloud native technologies serving our Cloud Security Graph
- Model cloud native technical controls across a variety of both governmental and commercial compliance frameworks and security benchmarks to help our customers achieve both compliant and secure cloud configuration state
- Partner with product management engineering security research and customers to develop roadmaps of content for cloud security and compliance concerns
- Identify and drive inefficiencies out of content development processes through the creation of innovative tooling automation; shepherd platform issues impacting content development and user experience through engineering to completion
- Evangelize yourself and the Datadog security brand through blog posts documentation webinars and workshops. Present at conferences to highlight the challenges and successes in the field
Who You Are:
- A previous background in cloud security engineering detection engineering or other cloud security function
- Experience operating in at least one public cloud platform (AWS GCP Azure) and other cloud native technologies (Kubernetes Docker Terraform)
- Understanding of modern cloud native attacker techniques and familiarity with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
- Understanding of compliance and security frameworks and benchmarks in order to map these frameworks to technical controls such as CSPM
- Basic proficiency with Golang and Python programming languages
- Experience measuring the quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security controls to make data-driven decisions
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 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
- 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.
Employment Type
Full Time
