Staff Application Security Engineer

DataDog
Boston, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: CybersecuritySkills: ["Mentorship","Communication","Leadership","Influence","Design reviews"]

Security-focused engineering role responsible for defining application security standards, building scalable tooling, leading threat modeling, and guiding cross-team remediation for AI-powered features within Datadog’s SaaS platform. Owns secure-by-default frameworks, API security, and collaboration with Cloud & Infrastructure Security, while mentoring AppSec engineers and shaping the security roadmap.

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DataDog
DataDog
5 months ago

Staff Application Security Engineer

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Job Summary

Security-focused engineering role responsible for defining application security standards, building scalable tooling, leading threat modeling, and guiding cross-team remediation for AI-powered features within Datadog’s SaaS platform. Owns secure-by-default frameworks, API security, and collaboration with Cloud & Infrastructure Security, while mentoring AppSec engineers and shaping the security roadmap.
Location: Boston, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive security standards and secure-by-default solutions, serving as the Application Security subject matter expert.
  • •Build security tooling and automation that scales security practices across engineering teams, and implement robust security observability to support threat detection with actionable signals.
  • •Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for high-risk features and platform changes.
  • •Assess and address security risks introduced by agentic development practices and AI-powered product features in production.
  • •Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate critical threats, define API security standards, and conduct security code reviews.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusHealth Insurance401kEsppRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Go (preferred), Python, or Rust with hands-on code review experience
Experience:SaaSCloud securitySecurity toolingThreat modeling
Skills:MentorshipCommunicationLeadershipInfluenceDesign reviews
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonRustOWASPSASTDASTAPI securityCloud securitySecurity toolingCI/CD

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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