About the position
The Security Incident Response team is part of our Resilience Engineering organisation and plays a vital role in keeping Datadog safe. Our goal is to ensure that Datadog is prepared for and efficiently responds to security-related incidents, ensuring that threats to our systems and data are contained as fast as possible. We also partner with teams after incidents by leveraging them as opportunities to learn. By focusing on our ability to adapt and fix systemic problems, we contribute towards a larger culture of building resilience in our people and systems. As an Engineering Manager, you will help us realize this mission by leading a talented group of engineers who are committed to driving Datadog's incident response capabilities to the next level. Along with building tools and automation to streamline our efficiency, you will work with key stakeholders across Datadog to ensure we are focusing our efforts in the right areas and are measuring how we improve. As part of a leadership team, you will be active in shaping our organizational strategy and culture. 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of experienced incident responders who are passionate about building a culture of security and resilience at Datadog.
- Serve as a hands-on leader during incidents, making decisions in ambiguous situations and collaborating across several teams to drive towards resolution.
- Ensure the team is triaging alerts and signals in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently and to a high level.
- Build tools, systems, and processes to ensure Datadog is maturing its security incident response capabilities.
- Lead post-incident analysis efforts to ensure engineers learn from security incidents.
- Partner with Datadog's product management team by providing feedback on features and championing areas for improvement.
Requirements
- 2-3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills.
- 3-5 years experience working in incident response teams and large-scale incident response programs.
- Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade-offs around implementation.
- Strong distributed systems knowledge.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English.
Benefits
- 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
