Application Security is integral to the Datadog stack. The Application Security Platform team focuses on centralizing, monitoring, and adopting our Application Security policies across the SDLC. As the Application Security Platform Manager, you will build, lead, and drive this team to continuously improve our application security posture, protecting Datadog and our customers from potential security threats, risks, and attacks. We protect the product, empower teams to control their security posture; enabling teams through collaborative development of security tools and resources, and scaling security through the development of secure solutions that can be built into our platforms as secure-by-default configurations.
You’ll join at an ideal time for making a big impact. Our products are seeing very high growth, with the platform becoming more interactive and new products and features being developed regularly including products for the Security space.
At Datadog, we value 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:
- Manage and grow the Application Security Platform team, directly managing 5 security engineers.
- Define Application Security Standards that proactively address existing and emerging threats specific to the Datadog stack, as well as align with industry best practices but also.
- Design and build secure solutions to enable teams to adopt security controls through secure-by-default configurations within our platform systems.
- Collaborate with platform and product teams across Engineering to develop secure solutions and defaults, enabling engineers to follow the golden path for secure design.
- Use metrics, measurements and KPIs to sustain or improve our security posture over time.
- You’ll have a direct impact on the Datadog security product suite by leveraging the product internally and continuously providing actionable feedback to Product.
- You won’t have all the answers but you’ll help foster a high-performance and inclusive culture.
Who You Are:
- Passionate about security and want to work on complex security problems, at-scale, in a large multi-cloud environment
- You have great communication skills, emotional intelligence and skills at collaborating with and coaching folks from different backgrounds.
- You have direct people management experience and a strong desire to develop as an engineering leader.
- You thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and find ways to drive outcomes working with key stakeholders.
- You have prior experience in Software Engineering, Security Architecture, Application Security, and/or Offensive Security.
- You stay updated with modern security best practices, technologies and emerging threats
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.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About 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.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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