Director, Engineering - Platform Security

We are seeking an experienced Director of Platform Security Engineering to lead and scale our security functions across the code-to-cloud ecosystem. This role will oversee Cloud Security Application Security SDLC Security and will integrate AI security as a core component of all three practices.

As Director you will be accountable for building and guiding teams that protect the entire platform layer spanning infrastructure services and applications while ensuring secure design deployment and operations. You will partner closely with engineering product and compliance leaders to embed security into the platforms architecture and development lifecycle driving innovation and resilience at scale.

In this position you will be a key decision maker within a forward-looking organization that integrates Security and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) into a unified structure. You will set the strategy foster cross-functional collaboration and establish security as a core enabler of reliability and trust across the platform.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What you will do:

You will lead teams solving some of the hardest security engineering challenges at scale enabling developers to move quickly and safely while ensuring the resilience and trustworthiness of our core systems.

• Define and deliver the engineering roadmap for a zero trust architecture configuring identity access secrets management and secure service-to-service communication.
• Develop strategy to harden runtime environments by enforcing least-privilege execution isolation and service-to-service policy to systematically reduce application risk and shrink exploitable exposure.
• Architect and build secure access and usage of Cloud Services and Resources for engineers to build their services with.
• Architect and operate scalable fault-tolerant security services that integrate into platform infrastructure enabling security for application and AI agent services.
• Lead a team responsible for safeguarding Datadogs AI model environments.
  
  
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to ensure resilience observability and scalability of core security services.
• Own the security platform as a product delivering on automated guardrails policy-as-code and self-service security that integrate seamlessly into engineering workflows and prove impact through risk-based metrics (control coverage risk exposure MTTR exploit block rate).
• Build and maintain secure defaults across the software development lifecycle (source control pipelines artifact registries dependency management).

• Develop automation and reusable services for code scanning dependency monitoring and vulnerability management.
• Deliver secure guardrails for AI-powered developer tools (e.g. code validation sensitive data protection prompt injection resilience).

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams ensuring technical depth operational rigor and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product platform and AI engineering groups to embed security into developer workflows and CI/CD systems.
• Collaborate with Compliance Risk and Threat Intelligence teams to align engineering priorities with regulatory requirements and risk reduction.
• Advocate for secure by design principles across the engineering organization.

Who You Are:

• Youve been responsible for building and/or rolling out cloud infrastructure network infrastructure
• You have a proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations as a Director or higher in high-growth where you fostered a strong security culture and led teams through rapid change.
• Youve been able to advocate strong best practices by achieving consensus gaining accountability where ownership is unclear.
• You have expertise several of the following areas:
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Secrets management
• Cloud infrastructure hardening & zero-trust networking
• CI/CD pipeline security and source code management
• Supply chain security (artifact signing container image security dependency scanning)
• You have a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills that inspire collaboration and drive alignment across teams.
• Youve developed senior engineering leaders and teams who provided critical services for the engineering department.
• Youve developed and hired talent in a group growing senior leaders (both managers and ICs)
• You have aBS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Preferred

• Experience building reusable internal platforms APIs or services adopted broadly across engineering.
• Contributions to open-source projects in security infrastructure or developer tooling.
• Background bridging platform engineering SDLC security and emerging AI developer ecosystems.

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)
• Free global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
• Competitive global benefits & giving programs

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.

To conform to US export control regulations candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Required Experience:

Director