Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team

Datadog

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$221,365 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

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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.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team

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The Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team joins the Security Incident Response Team to defend the organization against cybersecurity threats and protect customer data. In this role, you will identify, triage, and respond to security incidents as an incident commander or responder. You will partner with Cyber Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering teams to ensure high-signal detections, conduct post-incident reviews, and perform tabletop and purple team exercises. You will build tools and automations to eliminate repetitive processes and improve the overall security posture. Required skills include experience with public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. You must be proficient in building forensic tools using Python or Go while understanding cloud-native threat actor TTPs.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $193000 from 107 postings across 42 companies.

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Skills

Security Incident Response Python Go AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Docker Terraform Cloud Security Threat Hunting Purple Team Security Operations TTPs

What you'll do

  • Partner with threat intelligence and detection engineering teams to identify threats and ensure high-signal detections.
  • Triage escalated alerts to determine if a security incident is occurring or imminent.
  • Respond to security incidents as either an incident commander or an incident responder.
  • Build tools and automations to eliminate repetitive processes and increase team efficiency.
  • Improve security posture through post-incident reviews, tabletop exercises, and runbook improvements.
  • Participate in a light on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

  • You have at least 5 years of experience in security incident response, threat hunting, security operations, cloud security, or other operational security domains.
  • You have worked with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • You have experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform.
  • You have a strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor TTPs and corresponding defensive controls.
  • You have used a wide range of technologies and datasets to detect threats in cloud and enterprise environments.
  • You have experience building and supporting tools for incident response and forensic use cases using Python, Go, or similar programming languages.
  • You are able to participate in a light on-call rotation.

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