Security Engineer II, Threat Detection

The Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting team builds high-signal detection content. As a Threat Detection Engineer II, you will deliver detection content sourcing a wide variety of data, especially cloud native datasets and workload runtime events, to detect threats in near real-time.

Requirements

• Background in detection engineering, cloud security engineering, or other operational security function
• Experience operating in at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
• Understanding of modern cloud native attacker techniques and familiarity with technical controls to prevent and detect these attacks
• Proficient understanding of Linux internals and associated telemetry to detect threats at runtime
• Experience detecting threats at scale through a wide variety of technologies and datasets using a modern detection engineering approach
• Proficiency with Python, Golang, or other programming languages
• Experience measuring the quantitative and qualitative effectiveness of security controls to make data-driven decisions

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