# Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8286919/?gh_jid=8286919&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) plays a vital role in keeping Datadog safe from cybersecurity threats, defending the organization against threat actors, and maintaining the trust of our customers by ensuring their data remains protected. In this role, you will work closely with teams across Datadog to identify, triage, and respond to a wide range of threats, ensuring that we can contain any incidents as quickly as possible. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have at least 5 years of experience in security incident response, threat hunting, security operations, cloud security, or other operational security domains
- You’ve worked with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform
- You have a strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor TTPs and corresponding defensive controls and actively stay up to date with the threat landscape from various blogs, whitepapers, and conference talks
- You’ve used a wide range of technologies and datasets to detect threats in cloud and enterprise environments
- You have experience building and supporting tools for incident response and forensic use cases using Python, Go, or similar programming languages

Tags: Security

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