Platform Security Engineer

• Solve our most challenging cloud infrastructure security & application security problems starting with our core building blocks and golden paths.
• Enable our engineers to build and ship secure solutions quickly.
• Build and extend Datadog’s Platform Security solutions.
• Leverage and influence the direction of Datadog’s products to secure our infrastructure, and provide internal feedback that enables our teams to improve the products for ourselves and our customers., * 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

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.
• You don’t want to just provide security recommendations, you want to help implement solutions to solve systemic issues.
• Passionate about advocating for and implementing solutions to complex security problems, at-scale, in a large multi-cloud self-managed Kubernetes environment.
• Proven experience in securing enterprise SaaS applications including securing the underlying authentication flows, authorization patterns, and input validation at API boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience in securing the deployment & management mechanisms for software and infrastructure changes.
• Familiarity with common security frameworks such as OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, PASTA/STRIDE, CIS, etc.
• You have prior experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, Cloud Security or Application Security.
• Software engineering background with hands-on code review experience; Go, Python, or Rust
• Experience with one or more Kubernetes PKI & network technologies (Consul, Envoy, Cillium, Vault, Istio, etc.).
• Experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.

• Able to work both independently and collaboratively, willing to work in a fast paced, high growth environment.

• You stay updated with modern security best practices, technologies and emerging threats.

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