Datadog - New York, NY
posted 3 months ago
As a Senior Application Security Engineer at Datadog, you will play a crucial role in enabling developers to build secure applications. This position involves working closely with Datadog engineering teams to establish secure-by-default practices across widely adopted platforms. You will provide essential application security operational services, including conducting security reviews, offering developer security education, and managing product security incident responses. This role presents a unique opportunity to leverage Datadog's robust product suite, which includes Logs, Dashboards, Service Catalog, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM). You will not only build out security services but also collaborate with engineers who prioritize strong security and reliability ownership. Your contributions will significantly shape security practices across our rapidly evolving platforms. In this role, you will gain a deep understanding of Datadog's software development life cycle, software supply chain, build pipelines, delivery mechanisms, and configuration management. You will lead the development and implementation of secure-by-default solutions across various applications and platforms. Conducting threat modeling on new and existing products with engineering teams using frameworks such as STRIDE will be a key responsibility. Additionally, you will design and lead developer security training to enhance design and coding best practices. Working with engineering teams, you will align new features to achieve world-class security, identify top company threats across products and services, and prioritize remediation efforts. Your ability to empathize with both our customers and engineers will be essential as you advocate for effective solutions that scale with the needs of our business and our customers. You will also serve as a subject matter expert for other teams regarding building, delivering, and deploying code at Datadog, providing mentorship and guidance to junior security engineers.