About the Job
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at a high scale - trillions of data points per day — providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companie...
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our CI/CD Security Team within our SDLC Security organization. We work at the intersection of security and engineering infrastructure to secure Datadog's continuous integration and continuous delivery systems. Our responsibilities include hardening pipeline...
In this role, you will shape and build a new security layer for our CI/CD infrastructure and drive its adoption across the engineering organization. You will solve challenging systems problems around trusted build provenance, secure secret delivery, and real-time policy enforcement at high throughput. The work sits ...
Key Responsibilities
Design and build highly performant infrastructure that operates in the critical path of our CI/CD systems
Help drive the technical roadmap for trusted build provenance, secure secret access, and real-time rule enforcement at the network layer
Partner closely with platform, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to make secure workflows easy to adopt and difficult to bypass
Use modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering, debugging, testing, and analysis
Help guide and mentor junior engineers
Participate in Datadog’s incident response efforts
Have a direct impact on the integrity of our software supply chain and the trustworthiness of how software is built and delivered at Datadog
Required Skills & Abilities
Fluent in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, or JavaScript
Experienced building reliable, high-throughput systems or infrastructure that sits on the critical path of software delivery
Strong understanding of CI/CD architecture and the security boundaries, trust relationships, and infrastructure involved in building and delivering software
Comfortable using AI-assisted engineering tools and thoughtful about where they improve velocity, quality, and operational effectiveness
Familiar with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
An excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work through complex technical and architectural problems with a diverse group of stakeholders
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and adapting designs as security requirements, infrastructure, and developer workflows evolve
Passionate about building security infrastructure that engineers trust and want to use
Experienced with software supply chain security, build systems, provenance, artifact repositories, or CI/CD platforms
Familiar with proxying, protocol-aware systems, request interception, or high-performance policy engines
Familiar with Linux internals, systems programming, networking fundamentals, or distributed systems
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.
