Manager II, Engineering - Source Security

• Partner with our Developer Experience teams on the configuration of our source code management solutions, ensuring secure guardrails are in place by default.
• Explore solutions in the coding agent security space such as sandboxing and hook based monitors.
• Guide and mentor a team of security and software engineers, emphasizing career development, inclusivity, and high performance.
• Take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to complex technical problems and work with your team to produce well-defined and actionable plans.
• Balance your time between management and hands-on technical work.
• Participate in Datadog’s oncall and incident response efforts.
• Have a direct impact on users and the overall trust of our platform.

• Experienced managing an engineering team distributed across multiple timezones.
• Fluent in one or more modern coding languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
• Familiar with continuous security scanning and fine-tuning SAST rules and methodology, as well as AI based coding tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor
• Familiar with Github, Gitlab, or other modern source code management and CI solutions
• You are able to work closely with engineering and DevOps teams to integrate security seamlessly into the development process.
• An excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, high growth environment, and able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.

Bonus Points:

• Passionate about building products that engineers love and believe in the true outcome of DevSecOps
• Familiar with formal verification, fuzzing, or code correctness methodologies
• Experience productionizing LLM based or agentic workflows
• Familiar with product workflows, and building security into the user experience

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $240,000-$305,000 USD