Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting
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Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting team youll lead the development of high-fidelity detection content across a diverse set of log integrations with a strong focus on cloud-native data.
Youll play a critical role in identifying and responding to emerging threats across Datadogs infrastructure working closely with internal incident response threat intelligence and product stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative impactful opportunity to shape our detection capabilities while using Datadogs own security products to drive continuous improvement.
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:
- Implement the detection engineering lifecycle to identify threats across Datadogs infrastructure and manage a scalable detection backlog
- Build maintain and refine detection metrics to communicate effectiveness and drive improvements with cross-functional stakeholders
- Research and operationalize log telemetry from the Datadog Logs platform into actionable security detections within the Datdog platform
- Partner with incident response teams during active threats helping guide threat hunting and containment strategies
- Identify inefficiencies in detection content development and implement tooling and automation to streamline engineering workflows
- Lead the development of threat hunts based on the latest threat intelligence and attack surface priorities to identify missed threats uncover gaps in telemetry and ideate on new detections
Who You Are:
You have experience in detection engineering threat hunting security operations cloud security or other operational security domains
Youve worked with at least one public cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure) and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes Docker or Terraform
Experience working closely with threat intelligence teams to research threats and translate insights into detections.
You have a strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor TTPs and corresponding defensive controls and actively stay up to date with new advancements in detection engineering from various blogs whitepapers and conference talks.
Youre experienced in interpreting Linux telemetry to detect threats at runtime
Youve used a wide range of technologies and datasets to detect threats in cloud environments
You are experienced in building and supporting tools to for detection and threat hunting use cases using Python Go or similar programming languagesDatadog 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:
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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