# Senior Platform Security Engineer

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Paris
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Platform Security Engineer, you will partner with different stakeholders across the organization to secure the infrastructure and application components of the Datadog platform.

You will solve the most challenging cloud infrastructure security and application security problems, enable engineers to build and ship secure solutions quickly, and build and extend Datadog's Platform Security solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Solve our most challenging cloud infrastructure security & application security problems starting with our core building blocks and golden paths.

- Enable our engineers to build and ship secure solutions quickly.

- Build and extend Datadog's Platform Security solutions.

- Leverage and influence the direction of Datadog's products to secure our infrastructure, and provide internal feedback that enables our teams to improve the products for ourselves and our customers.

Requirements:

- BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.

- You have hands-on experience with Linux kernel internals (namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp) and hardening techniques such as KASLR, module allowlisting, or kernel self-protection (KSPP) controls.

- Experience with virtualization or microVM technologies (KVM, QEMU, Kata Containers, Firecracker, or similar) and the security boundaries a hypervisor provides versus a container.

- Familiarity with container runtime internals (containerd, OCI runtimes, checkpoint/restore).

- Demonstrated experience in securing the deployment & management mechanisms for software and infrastructure changes.

- Familiarity with common security frameworks such as OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, PASTA/STRIDE, CIS, etc.

- Prior experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, Cloud Security or Application Security.

- Software engineering background with hands-on code review experience; Go, Python, or Rust.

- Experience with one or more Kubernetes PKI & network technologies (Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, Istio, etc.) and eBPF-based tooling.

- Experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Linux kernel internals
- cloud infrastructure security
- application security
- Kubernetes
- container runtime internals
- security frameworks
- Software Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Network Engineering
- Cloud Security
- Go
- Python
- Rust

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