Senior Product Security Engineer, AI Agents

Datadog

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta, GACTFLMANew York, NYPA
Salary: $192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted: 139 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 73 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Security Engineer, AI Agents

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As a Senior Product Security Engineer - AI Agents, you will join the team responsible for Bits Code, a cloud coding agent that automatically fixes surfaced problems. You will own the security architecture and implementation from early design through production, working hands-on to ship product features quickly. Your daily responsibilities include building threat models for agent risks like prompt injection, writing and maintaining core libraries, and collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to identify risks. You will specifically work with sandbox teams on executing untrusted workloads. The role requires expertise in product security, application security, or security architecture, with experience securing systems across complex trust boundaries and building full stack systems at scale. You must understand security risks in agentic systems and make pragmatic security trade-offs.

Skills

Security Architecture Application Security Product Security Agentic Systems Infrastructure

What you'll do

Own the security architecture and implementation of Bits Code from design through production.
Identify product risks by working with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams.
Build threat models for agent risks such as prompt injection.
Write and maintain core libraries to help the team ship secure software quickly.
Guide the team on security processes and culture.
Collaborate with sandbox teams on executing untrusted workloads.
Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain production systems.

What we're looking for

Hold a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field.
Have at least 5+ years of professional experience in product security, application security, or security architecture.
Have experience securing systems that operate across complex trust boundaries.
Have experience building and operating full stack systems at scale.
Be familiar with security risks in agentic systems and have experience designing against them.
Be able to make pragmatic security trade-offs.

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