This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$145,700–$202,850
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$214k
versus about
$174k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Datadog
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.
Datadog currently has
266 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$161,000–$205,000
across 138 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer - K8s within the Platform Security team, you will partner with stakeholders to secure cloud infrastructure and building blocks while creating solutions that make the secure path easier for engineers. You will solve complex security problems, build and extend platform security tools, and develop AI-based solutions to enable security at scale. The role requires a specialist focused on service mesh and Kubernetes systems in production environments. You will work with technologies including Go, Python, or Rust, alongside Kubernetes PKI and network tools such as Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, and Istio across major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP. Your work involves addressing systemic risks within a multi-cloud environment to ensure the safe usage of internal products and infrastructure components while providing feedback to improve core security products.