Security Engineer - Intern

We’re looking for security-minded or security-curious interns to join us to help collect, aggregate, visualize, and analyze threat and vulnerability data. You'll join one of Datadog's security engineering teams and work alongside other engineers and researchers to help solve complex problems. Whether you are writing a detection pipeline to find threat actors attacking cloud environments, building research projects to add new security data to the Datadog platform, or working with the open-source community, our interns are key contributors to our product. 

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This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with one of our Security Engineering teams 
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to identify gaps and design automated solutions to address Datadog’s business needs
• Solve performance or scaling problems in your team’s services
• Deploy new features to production and progressively roll them out with feature flags
• Assist in responding to security incidents on Datadog’s IT infrastructure
• Create and tune security detections to discover malicious activity
• Work to secure a BeyondCorp style zero-trust network
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Create a way to optimize a service to handle more traffic at scale
• Learn new skills and technologies and receive mentorship from some of the best engineers in the industry

Who You Are:

• You are targeting a 2026 full-time start date
• You are in the process of receiving/have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or have equivalent experience
• You have strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design, operating systems, networking to name a few) 
• You have taken classes or have done individual projects that are security focused or adjacent, and are curious to learn more about it
• You are comfortable coding in one or more programming languages 
• You are familiar with and get excited about building and deploying systems at scale
• You want to explore areas of security as a potential area you want to work in full-time
• You are a self-starter who enjoys partnering with other engineers and solving difficult problems 
• You are available to work full-time from the Datadog New York office from May 12, 2025 - August 15, 2025; May 12, 2025 - August 22, 2025; or June 2, 2025 - August 22, 2025

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: 

• Mentorship opportunities with team members, leadership, and beyond
• Continuous professional development and product training opportunities
• Interdepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Relocation support and travel benefits
• Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
• Beautiful offices in convenient locations

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.