Senior Datadog Security & Observability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Datadog Cloud SIEM, security monitoring and observability capabilities 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 Datadog 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
• Build and optimize log ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment and routing workflows
• 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 depth and investigation quality
• Partner with Security Operations to improve triage workflows, incident response readiness and escalation quality