Senior Cloud Security Engineer - K8s

As a Cloud Security Engineer you will partner with different stakeholders across the organization to secure our cloud infrastructure. As part of the Platform Security organization we secure the building blocks of Datadog’s applications and infrastructure. We do this by building solutions to solve systemic risks and combine an approach of making the secure path easier and the insecure path harder to secure and accelerate the business.

We regularly partner with the most bleeding edge internal products and are working to solve and build solutions to enable our safe usage of AI. We also develop AI based solutions to enable security at scale.

We are looking for a Service Mesh and Kubernetes focused security specialist to help round out an incredibly strong infrastructure security focused group. You will rotate through a variety of internal projects and gain deep exposure to Datadog’s infrastructure.

• Solve our most challenging cloud infrastructure 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.

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.
• Passionate about advocating for and implementing solutions to complex problems, at‑scale, in a large multi‑cloud environment.
• You don’t want to just provide security recommendations, you want to help implement solutions to solve systemic issues.
• You have prior experience in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, or Cloud Security.
• You have experience developing, deploying, and extending service mesh systems in production Kubernetes environments.
• 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.

• 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+

Salary: $187,000 — $240,000 USD

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