Software Engineer - Security of Secrets

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 companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Security of Secrets (SOS) team is responsible for safeguarding our secrets.  We are looking for strong candidates to define, own, and deliver software solutions for the program over the next few years. We will be working with a wide variety of teams throughout the organization to understand their secrets usage and deliver transparent yet robust solutions. At the same time, we want to share our knowledge publicly so that not only our customers have increased confidence in us, but so that we help the rest of the industry meet their own security of secrets needs.

We are looking for a Software Engineer who will help us design and write secure yet performant code in the critical area of securing secrets.

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: 

• Embedding within some key engineering teams to improve overall security posture
• Working with a team of software engineers and security engineers
• Translating high-level initiatives into concrete deliverables
• Writing well-tested, secure, and performant code
• Writing and reviewing technical documentation
• Unblocking technical decisions and being a technical mentor/coach
• ​​Participating in on-call rotation along with other team members
• Contributing to the open source community

Who You Are:

• A software engineer with at least 1-2 years of experience
• Proficient in Go, Java, or Python with a willingness to learn Go, if necessary
• A writer of good technical documentation
• Knowledgeable with source control and CI/CD systems such as git, GitHub, and GitLab
• A master of DevOps and deploying your own apps using cloud-native technologies such as Bazel, Docker, gRPC, Helm, k8s, Protobuf, and Terraform
• Skilled in using cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• A fast learner who is able to pick up new ideas in software and security on the fly
• Confident representing your ideas and opinions in a manner that can be challenged, while responding well to feedback
• Comfortable working independently

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. 

Bonus points:

• Experienced in handling security of secrets at previous organizations
• Experienced with secrets management systems such as Hashicorp Vault, AWS KMS, GCP KMS, and Azure Key Vault
• Experienced with the Datadog line of products
• Are passionate about building products that engineers love and believe in the true outcome of security
• Familiar with security fundamentals, especially applied and public-key cryptography

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.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Datadog ranges from $130,000 - $300,000, plus a competitive equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

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