Manager II, Engineering - Source Security
About The Position
Datadog is on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams, operating at a high scale with trillions of data points per day. The engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity. The company is seeking a manager to lead the Source Security team within the broader SDLC Security organization. This team is responsible for evaluating the security properties of every commit using static analysis and LLM-based review systems, as well as governing source code and third-party dependencies. The manager will own the roadmap for growing existing agentic reviewers to maintain system safety and reliability amidst dramatically scaling contributions due to coding agent adoption. This role involves partnering with developer experience organizations to secure source code and CI environments, and with product teams to ensure security controls scale and internal best practices are reflected for customers. This is an ideal time to join due to the high need for robust supply chain security and Datadog's rapid growth and expanding product portfolio, which requires agile thinkers with deep security fundamentals. Datadog values its office culture for relationships, collaboration, and creativity, operating as a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony.
Requirements
- Experienced managing an engineering team distributed across multiple timezones.
- Fluent in one or more modern coding languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
- Familiar with continuous security scanning and fine-tuning SAST rules and methodology, as well as AI based coding tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor
- Familiar with Github, Gitlab, or other modern source code management and CI solutions
- You are able to work closely with engineering and DevOps teams to integrate security seamlessly into the development process.
- An excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, high growth environment, and able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.
Nice To Haves
- Passionate about building products that engineers love and believe in the true outcome of DevSecOps
- Familiar with formal verification, fuzzing, or code correctness methodologies
- Experience productionizing LLM based or agentic workflows
- Familiar with product workflows, and building security into the user experience
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team, working as a hands on technical contributor while building out the roadmap for evaluating the safety of coding agent output using a combination of static analysis and LLM evaluations.
- Partner with our Developer Experience teams on the configuration of our source code management solutions, ensuring secure guardrails are in place by default.
- Explore solutions in the coding agent security space such as sandboxing and hook based monitors.
- Guide and mentor a team of security and software engineers, emphasizing career development, inclusivity, and high performance.
- Take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to complex technical problems and work with your team to produce well-defined and actionable plans.
- Balance your time between management and hands-on technical work.
- Participate in Datadog’s oncall and incident response efforts.
- Have a direct impact on users and the overall trust of our platform.
Benefits
- 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
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- healthcare
- dental
- parental planning
- mental health benefits
- a 401(k) plan and match
- paid time off
- fitness reimbursements
- a discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
