Staff Application Security Engineer
Datadog · Boston, MA | New York City, NY · Security
About this role
Datadog is hiring a staff-level Application Security Engineer based in Boston, MA | New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Python, Rust, Datadog, API Development. Compensation is listed at $234,000–$300,000 per year.
- Role
- Application Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boston, MA | New York City, NY
- Department
- Security
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Job description
from Datadog careersAs a Staff Application Security Engineer at Datadog, you'll set technical direction for how we approach application security at scale. You'll define the frameworks, methodologies, and architectural patterns that engineering teams across Datadog adopt and apply independently. You're the person others come to when they don't know how to make something secure, and you reliably have an answer.
You'll be a point of contact for our most complex security programs, often spanning multiple teams and multiple quarters. The role requires both depth (going very deep on specific problems when needed) and breadth (recognizing patterns across systems and drawing connections that others miss). Partnering closely with teams inside and outside the security org is key to success. You'll help shape the AppSec roadmap and make the case for where investment should go.
We use our own platform. Logs, Dashboards, Service Catalog, and APM aren't just things we sell: they're tools the AppSec team uses to build security services, measure adoption of secure defaults, and communicate risk across the organization.
AI is also part of the picture. Engineering at Datadog increasingly uses agentic tooling throughout the development lifecycle, and many of the products we ship to customers now include AI-powered features. Both create new attack surfaces, and defining our strategy for addressing them is part of this role.