Software Engineer - Security of Secrets
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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About Datadog:
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 Team:
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.
The Role:
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.
You will be:
- 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
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
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
Why you should apply:
- Generous and competitive global and US benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding (Apple M1 laptops and access to a variety of cloud resources)
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture with great emphasis on work-life balance
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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About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
Tags: AWS Azure CI/CD Cloud Cryptography DevOps Docker GCP GitHub GitLab Helm Java Kubernetes Monitoring Open Source Privacy Python SaaS Terraform
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