Senior Datadog Security – Observability Engineer
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Senior Datadog engineer scaling detection engineering and security observability for Keeper Security’s cybersecurity platform. Building SIEM rules, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring across AWS environments.
Responsibilities:
- Own and continuously improve Datadog Cloud SIEM, security monitoring and observability capabilities across production and corporate environments
- Design, build and maintain detection and telemetry capabilities across Datadog, SentinelOne, Wiz and related security platforms
- Develop, test and tune high-fidelity Datadog detection rules aligned to real-world attack scenarios and adversary behaviors
- Improve alert quality by reducing false positives, eliminating noise and increasing detection accuracy
- Design and maintain Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes, archives and retention strategies
- Implement and mature detection-as-code practices for scalable, version-controlled and testable rule management
- Define and enforce logging, telemetry and instrumentation standards across cloud infrastructure, applications, endpoints and identity systems
- Build and optimize log ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment and routing workflows
- Automate onboarding of new telemetry sources and improve visibility across production and corporate environments
- Correlate signals across Datadog, EDR, cloud, identity and security platforms to improve detection depth and investigation quality
- Partner with Security Operations to improve triage workflows, incident response readiness and escalation quality
- Build Datadog dashboards, monitors, analytics and reporting that support operational decision-making across Security, SRE and Engineering
- Map and maintain detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK and identify telemetry and detection gaps
- Perform detection gap assessments and evolve use cases based on threat intelligence, threat hunting and emerging risks
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, product and compliance teams to strengthen secure logging and observability patterns throughout the software development lifecycle
- Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or similar platforms to support query development, detection engineering, investigations, automation and technical documentation
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, security engineering, security observability or a related technical role
- Deep, hands-on production experience administering and engineering Datadog in complex cloud environments
- Strong experience with Datadog Cloud SIEM, Log Management, Security Monitoring, dashboards, monitors and alerting
- Experience designing and maintaining Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes and retention strategies
- Experience building, testing and tuning detection rules, correlation logic and investigation workflows in Datadog
- Strong understanding of security telemetry across cloud, endpoint, identity and application environments
- Experience with log parsing, normalization, enrichment and pipeline management
- Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure
- Proficiency with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell or similar languages
- Experience using Datadog APIs, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools to automate configuration and platform management
- Solid understanding of modern detection strategies, attacker behaviors and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure and application telemetry
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across Security Operations, Engineering, Infrastructure and SRE teams
- Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve query development, detection analysis, troubleshooting, automation and documentation
- Preferred: Experience with SentinelOne, Wiz or related cloud and endpoint security platforms
- Preferred: Experience with Datadog Application Performance Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, distributed tracing or synthetic monitoring
- Preferred: Experience optimizing Datadog ingestion volume, indexing, retention and platform cost
- Preferred: Experience with SOAR, workflow automation or response orchestration
- Preferred: Familiarity with Sigma or other detection-as-code frameworks
- Preferred: Experience operating Datadog across large-scale, multi-account or multi-region AWS environments
- Preferred: Experience in high-scale SaaS, cloud-native or security product environments
- Preferred: Familiarity with zero-trust architectures, identity-centric security and privileged access management
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
- Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life
- Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401K (Roth/Traditional)
- A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)
- Above market annual bonuses
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