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We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at a high scale - trillions of data points per day — providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a manager to lead the Source Security team within our broader SDLC Security org. This team is responsible for evaluating the security properties of every single commit at Datadog using a combination of static analysis and LLM based review systems, as well as the governance of our source code and third party dependency ecosystem. You will own the roadmap for growing our existing agentic reviewers, working to maintain the safety and reliability of our systems while the volume of contributions scales dramatically with our adoption of coding agents. You'll partner with our developer experience organizations on securing our source code and CI environments, and our product teams on making sure that our security controls scale and that the best practices we develop internally are reflected for our customers as well.
You'll join at an ideal time to make a big impact as the need for robust supply chain security is higher than it's ever been. Datadog as a platform is growing fast and is used very widely, and the continued and exciting expansion of our product portfolio requires agile thinkers with a deep grounding in security fundamentals.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
- Lead a small team, working as a hands on technical contributor while building out the roadmap for evaluating the safety of coding agent output using a combination of static analysis and LLM evaluations.
- 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.
Who You Are:
- 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.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand 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 skills, 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.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
About Datadog
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at a high scale - trillions of data points per day — providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a manager to lead the Source Security team within our broader SDLC Security org. This team is responsible for evaluating the security properties of every single commit at Datadog using a combination of static analysis and LLM based review systems, as well as the governance of our source code and third party dependency ecosystem. You will own the roadmap for growing our existing agentic reviewers, working to maintain the safety and reliability of our systems while the volume of contributions scales dramatically with our adoption of coding agents. You'll partner with our developer experience organizations on securing our source code and CI environments, and our product teams on making sure that our security controls scale and that the best practices we develop internally are reflected for our customers as well.
You'll join at an ideal time to make a big impact as the need for robust supply chain security is higher than it's ever been. Datadog as a platform is growing fast and is used very widely, and the continued and exciting expansion of our product portfolio requires agile thinkers with a deep grounding in security fundamentals.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
- Lead a small team, working as a hands on technical contributor while building out the roadmap for evaluating the safety of coding agent output using a combination of static analysis and LLM evaluations.
- 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.
Who You Are:
- 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.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand 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 skills, 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.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Align your credentials to Datadog's stack
Datadog's Engineering roles center on distributed systems, Go, Python, and cloud-native infrastructure. Before applying, make sure your resume and GitHub portfolio reflect hands-on experience with observability tooling, large-scale backend systems, or Kubernetes, not just general software development.
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If you're applying for a new H-1B, USCIS only allows an October 1 start date for cap-subject petitions. If your OPT or current status expires before October 1, verify with Datadog's immigration team whether premium processing or a cap-gap extension keeps you work-authorized through the gap.
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Does Datadog sponsor H-1B visas for Engineers?
Yes, Datadog sponsors H-1B visas for Engineering roles. The company works with immigration counsel to file both cap-subject and transfer petitions across software engineering, infrastructure, and systems positions. If you're already in H-1B status with another employer, Datadog can initiate an H-1B transfer, allowing you to start work once USCIS receives the petition.
How do I apply for Engineering jobs at Datadog?
You can apply through Datadog's careers portal or find their open Engineering roles filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility on Migrate Mate. Datadog's Engineering hiring process typically includes a recruiter screen, technical phone interview, and a multi-round virtual onsite covering coding and system design. Tailoring your application to the specific team, such as Agent, Platform, or APM, improves your chances significantly.
Which visa types does Datadog sponsor for Engineering roles?
Datadog sponsors H-1B, H-1B1, TN, and F-1 OPT and CPT for Engineering positions, and supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship for longer-term employees. TN is available to Canadian and Mexican engineers in qualifying specialty occupations. F-1 OPT candidates can typically start without waiting for an H-1B, which makes early application timing less critical for that group.
What qualifications does Datadog look for in sponsored Engineering candidates?
Datadog's Engineering roles generally require a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field, which also satisfies H-1B specialty occupation requirements. Beyond credentials, hiring managers prioritize experience with large-scale distributed systems, proficiency in Go or Python, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure. Senior roles frequently expect prior work on high-throughput data pipelines or observability platforms.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Datadog Engineering offer?
For H-1B transfers, USCIS typically processes standard petitions within three to six months, though premium processing can reduce this to 15 business days. For new cap-subject H-1B petitions, the earliest start date is October 1 following the April lottery. OPT candidates can begin work sooner, making them attractive hires when Datadog needs to fill roles before the next H-1B cycle.
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