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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer - CI/CD Security

Datadog New York, New York Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$192,000-$240,000 USD per year

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Description

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our CI/CD Security Team within our SDLC Security organization. We work at the intersection of security and engineering infrastructure to secure Datadog's continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.

What You'll Do:

  • Design and build highly performant infrastructure that operates in the critical path of our CI/CD systems
  • Help drive the technical roadmap for trusted build provenance, secure secret access, and real-time rule enforcement at the network layer
  • Partner closely with platform, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to make secure workflows easy to adopt and difficult to bypass
  • Use modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering, debugging, testing, and analysis
  • Help guide and mentor junior engineers
  • Participate in Datadog’s incident response efforts
  • Have a direct impact on the integrity of our software supply chain and the trustworthiness of how software is built and delivered at Datadog

Who You Are:

  • Fluent in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, or JavaScript
  • Experienced building reliable, high-throughput systems or infrastructure that sits on the critical path of software delivery
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD architecture and the security boundaries, trust relationships, and infrastructure involved in building and delivering software
  • Comfortable using AI-assisted engineering tools and thoughtful about where they improve velocity, quality, and operational effectiveness
  • Familiar with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
  • An excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work through complex technical and architectural problems with a diverse group of stakeholders
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and adapting designs as security requirements, infrastructure, and developer workflows evolve

Benefits and Growth:

  • 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

Nice to have

  • software supply chain security
  • build systems
  • provenance
  • artifact repositories
  • CI/CD platforms
  • proxying
  • protocol-aware systems
  • request interception
  • high-performance policy engines
  • Linux internals
  • systems programming
  • networking fundamentals
  • distributed systems

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/8223819

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