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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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As a Senior Platform Security Engineer, you will join the Platform Security team to secure infrastructure and application components of the Datadog platform. You will partner with stakeholders to solve complex cloud infrastructure and application security problems by building solutions that address systemic risks and create secure paths for engineers. Your daily work involves building and extending platform security tools while influencing product direction to improve internal systems. The role requires expertise in securing enterprise SaaS applications, including authentication flows, authorization patterns, and API input validation. You will operate within a multi-cloud self-managed Kubernetes environment using technologies such as Go, Python, or Rust, alongside networking tools like Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, and Istio. You must also be familiar with security frameworks like OWASP and MITRE ATT&CK to protect deployment mechanisms for software and infrastructure changes.