Senior Application Security Engineer

Datadog

New York, United States
Competitive salary; equity pyckage (rsus/espp); co...
On-site
Strong software engineering background
Experience building distributed systems
Designing and implementing security controls
The role focuses on building scalable, platform-level security controls to enforce production security invariants across the Datadog infrastructure

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on building scalable, platform-level security controls to enforce production security invariants across the Datadog infrastructure.
  • Candidates will design secure-by-default platform controls and integrate them into developer workflows to drive high adoption.
  • The company offers competitive stock equity, continuous professional development, and global mental health benefits.

Matching Summary

The role focuses on building scalable, platform-level security controls to enforce production security invariants across the Datadog infrastructure.

Salary

Competitive salary; Equity package (RSUs/ESPP); Comprehensive benefits including healthcare and mental health support

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Strong software engineering background
  • Experience building distributed systems
  • Designing and implementing security controls
  • Built shared infrastructure or internal platforms
  • Understanding of identity and trust boundaries

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with zero trust architectures
  • Familiarity with policy-based systems
  • Experience with untrusted workloads
  • Using observability for security insights

Key Requirements

  • Software engineering experience required
  • Go or Python preferred
  • US export control eligibility required

Work Rights

Must be eligible for US government authorizations per export control regulations

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