Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, or New York, New York, USA

Company

Datadog develops multi-cloud products and services and builds security capabilities across its software supply chain.

What you will do

• Manage the vulnerability lifecycle from detection and impact assessment through risk-based prioritization, remediation, and verification.
• Build AI-assisted tools, services, and workflows that scale vulnerability management and reduce engineering toil.
• Automate finding enrichment, ownership identification, fix recommendations or delivery, and outcome tracking through a “PRs, not tickets” approach.
• Analyze recurring vulnerabilities and remediation failures to identify root causes and prevent issues earlier in the SDLC.
• Partner with security, product, platform, engineering, and compliance teams to implement scalable, risk-informed solutions.
• Provide evidence and subject-matter expertise for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, and ISO compliance controls.

Requirements

• Experience identifying, prioritizing, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities in large software, cloud, or infrastructure environments.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems independently using Go, Python, Java, or another programming language.
• Experience with cloud-native or multi-cloud environments, containers or orchestration platforms, infrastructure as code, and modern software-delivery workflows.
• Experience reproducing and validating externally reported vulnerabilities.
• Ability to make risk decisions using exploitability, exposure, technical context, and business impact.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or equivalent practical experience. Eligibility for any authorizations required by US export control regulations may be required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace focused on office collaboration, relationships, creativity, and work-life harmony.
• New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Professional development, product training, career pathing, and mentorship through mentor and buddy programs.
• Inclusive culture with employee resource groups, inclusion talks, and community guilds.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged six and older, plus competitive benefits that vary by employment country and arrangement.