Security Engineer 2 - Cyber Threat Intelligence

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain tooling that automates the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence.
• Assess emerging vulnerabilities, threat activity, and security events to help stakeholders understand potential impact to Datadog.
• Conduct threat hunting and infrastructure analysis to identify adversary activity relevant to Datadog and improve defensive controls.
• Partner with security teams to operationalize intelligence into detections, investigations, and response workflows.
• Cook up with information-sharing communities to gather, evaluate, and disseminate actionable intelligence.
• Produce technical briefings, threat reports, and intelligence products for security and engineering stakeholders.

Who You Are

• Experienced in writing and presenting operational and technical intelligence for threat detection, response, and security stakeholders.
• Skilled in partnering with detection and response teams to support investigations, improve response playbooks, and prioritize detection opportunities based on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Familiar with information-sharing communities and able to apply sound judgment when handling and operationalizing TLP-designated intelligence.
• Experienced in identifying and responding to large-scale emerging threats, including supply chain compromises, industry-wide campaigns, and exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities.
• Experienced in dynamic/static analysis of Linux and MacOS malware and in tracking cloud-native cybercrime and nation-state threat actors.
• Proficient in developing threat intelligence tooling and automation through software development and scripting.

Nice to Have

• Experience presenting at security conferences and publishing threat research.
• Experience with malware reverse engineering.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.