Senior Security Advocate

Our Senior Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our teams. With a focus on software supply chain security, you will leverage both your engineering and storytelling skills to educate and empower our user communities. You will have the opportunity to meet key leaders across the industry, and broaden your impact to the cloud and security community at large. 

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: 

• Create content in multiple forms to build Datadog's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Monitoring, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research papers and more
• Influence Datadog Security products to provide solutions that genuinely improve lives for security teams worldwide
• Actively shape and contribute to Datadog open-source projects like Stratus Red Team, GuardDog, Supply-Chain Firewall, and more
• Discover and demonstrate new attack and defense techniques that apply to all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Work across the Datadog organization to help mentor and develop other engineering related security stories
  
  

Who You Are: 

• A software developer, SRE, security engineer, researcher, or other engineering practitioner
• Comfortable and familiar with modern infrastructure, cloud environments, containers, kubernetes, or serverless technologies.
• Passionate about software supply chain integrity in CI and runtime
• You are active in communities like CNCF, SIG, OpenSSF, OWASP, or other working groups
• Ability to build end to end referenceable demos including supply chain security open source tools and products
• Experience in storytelling and creating content, including public samples of your work e.g. written content, conference talks, leading workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source, and participating in community events. Note: this could currently be a side hobby/passion
• You enjoy self-driven exploration and education on new technologies and can transform dry technical topics into engaging, informative and interesting educational materials

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.