Staff Engineer - Cloud SIEM

Staff Engineer - Cloud SIEM

New York, New York, USA

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us take Cloud SIEM to the next level.

Cloud SIEM is Datadog’s Security product providing real time threat detection and investigation for dynamic, cloud-scale environments.

Cloud SIEM currently analyzes in real time gigabytes of logs emitted by our customers' systems (Cloudtrail, AWS, Okta, etc.

and as we grow, we want to expand the capabilities of our streaming engine to detect threats on additional data sources, like metrics or database activities.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to high scale and high reliability systems that power our intuitive Cloud SIEM product.

As a Staff Engineer, you will drive and collaborate on projects spanning several teams within Cloud SIEM and collaborate closely with our other Engineering teams building Datadog's Security Products.

You can expect to make key technical decisions relating to our data ingestion, processing, and detection pipelines.

At Datadog, we value our office culture the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do :

Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams

Provide technical leadership across one or several areas of the platform

Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions

Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them

Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps

Collaborate with other Engineering teams to understand their systems and determine how they could be integrated in our solutions

Who You Are :

You have led cross-team initiatives in a product driven team, and have collaborated with Product and Design teams

You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience / operability are first-order concerns

You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale

You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become even stronger

You have a BS / MS / PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay.

If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth :

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.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Datadog ranges from $234,000 - $300,000, plus a competitive 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.

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