Senior Application Security Engineer | Datadog Careers

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$187,000–$240,000 / yr
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17 days ago

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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

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TL;DR · Senior Application Security Engineer | Datadog Careers

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As a Senior Security Engineer on the AppSec Foundations team at Datadog, you will design and implement secure-by-default platform controls to enforce production security invariants across distributed systems. Your daily tasks include building scalable security systems, defining standard security patterns, integrating security into developer workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to embed security early in development. You will leverage telemetry data for continuous improvement and contribute to threat modeling and security reviews. The ideal candidate has experience in software engineering, particularly with Go or Python, and a background in designing security controls such as authentication, authorization, and API security. Familiarity with modern system handling of identity and communication is essential, along with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and make pragmatic security decisions that balance risk, usability, and scalability.

Skills

Go Python API security Infrastructure security mTLS Service identity API gateways CI/CD Observability Telemetry Zero trust architectures Policy-based systems Large-scale access control models Sandboxing Agent-based systems

What you'll do

  • Design and implement secure-by-default platform controls for APIs and services.
  • Build scalable security systems and enforcement layers across distributed systems.
  • Define and standardize security patterns to reduce custom implementations.
  • Integrate security controls into developer workflows and infrastructure.
  • Identify recurring risks and translate them into reusable, enforced primitives.
  • Partner with engineering teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in designing and implementing security controls for distributed systems.
  • Strong background in software engineering with expertise in building shared infrastructure used by multiple teams.
  • Proficiency in creating secure-by-default platform controls to enforce production security across APIs and services.
  • Experience in integrating security into developer workflows, including infrastructure and platform abstractions.
  • Ability to define and standardize security patterns for broad adoption, reducing the need for custom implementations.
  • Familiarity with modern system handling of identity, communication, and trust boundaries (e.g., mTLS, service identity).
  • Pragmatic approach to making security decisions that balance risk, usability, and scalability.

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