The opportunity
As a Staff Application Security Engineer at Datadog, you'll set technical direction for how we approach application security at scale. You'll define the frameworks, methodologies, and architectural patterns that engineering teams across Datadog adopt and apply independently.
What you'll do
Define and drive security standards and secure-by-default solutions, serving: as the Application Security subject matter expert.
Build security tooling and automation that scales security practices across: engineering teams, and implement robust security observability to support our threat detection team with meaningful, actionable security signals.
Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for high-risk features and platform changes.
Assess and address security risks introduced by agentic development practices: and AI-powered product features in production
Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate critical threats,: define API security standards, and conduct security code reviews.
Identify systemic security risks; lead complex, multi-team remediation efforts end-to-end
What they're looking for
- Partner with Cloud & Infrastructure Security and other teams across the org: on cross-domain problems; be the AppSec point of contact on complex cross-domain problems
- Serve as the AppSec subject matter expert across Datadog; be the person: engineering leadership calls when they need clarity on a hard security problem
- Deeply invest in the growth of AppSec engineers on the team
- Software engineering background with hands-on code review experience; Go (preferred), Python, or Rust
