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Senior Datadog Security & Observability Engineer

2 hours, 7 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
DevOps Engineer
DevOps and Infrastructure
AWS Datadog PowerShell Python SIEM Terraform
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Keeper Security

Keeper Security

Keeper Security is the top-rated password and secrets manager, transforming the way businesses and individuals protect their digital assets to mitigate the risk of data breaches.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2011
$60M raised
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Description

  • Own and continuously improve Datadog Cloud SIEM, security monitoring, and observability 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 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.
  • 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 and investigation quality.
  • Partner with Security Operations, Infrastructure, SRE, and Engineering teams on triage workflows, incident response readiness, dashboards, monitors, analytics, and reporting.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of Datadog experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, security engineering, or security observability.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively for query development, detection analysis, troubleshooting, automation, and documentation.
  • Experience with SentinelOne, Wiz, or related cloud and endpoint security platforms (preferred).
  • Experience with Datadog APM, 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 (preferred).

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, including domestic partnerships.
  • Employer-paid life insurance plus supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse, and child.
  • Voluntary short- and long-term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with Roth and traditional options.
  • Generous PTO plan, including paid bereavement and jury duty leave.
  • Above-market annual bonuses.
  • 100% remote work available from select locations, with hybrid options in the El Dorado Hills, CA and Chicago, IL metro areas.

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