Senior Product Security Engineer - AI Agents

Datadog•Washington, NV

1d•$192,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Bits Code is Datadog’s cloud coding agent which fixes the problems that Datadog surfaces, as automatically as possible. You’ll shape the architecture, tools, processes, and culture that keep security risk very low while working hands-on with the team to ship product features quickly. 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.

Requirements

You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or at least 5+ years of professional experience, with a background in product security, application security, or security architecture.
You have experience securing systems that operate across complex trust boundaries.
You have experience building and operating full stack systems at scale.
You are familiar with security risks in agentic systems and have experience designing against them.
You make pragmatic security trade-offs.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Own the security architecture and implementation of Bits Code from early design through production operation.
Work with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to identify risks and shape the product.
Build threat models for new and existing agent risks such as prompt injection.
Help the team ship secure software fast by writing and maintaining core libraries, and guiding processes and culture.
Work with our sandbox teams on how Bits Code executes untrusted workloads.
Be on call. Datadog culture is that you build it, you run it.