Engineering Manager I, Threat Detection (AI)

Location: New York, New York, USA; hybrid workplace

Salary: $192,000–$240,000 USD per year, plus equity and possible variable compensation.

Company

Datadog is a SaaS and cloud infrastructure company building security, observability, and monitoring products.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of AI-accelerated threat detection and response.
• Develop high-fidelity detections, detection-authoring agents, detection platforms, coverage analysis, triage workflows, and response automation.
• Build, mentor, and grow a team of security and software engineers.
• Partner with SIRT, CTI, AI Engineering, and broader Security teams to integrate detection systems and tooling.
• Define metrics for detection coverage, signal quality, model and agent fidelity, evaluation results, and incident response readiness.
• Communicate the team's progress, tradeoffs, and strategy to security leadership and partner teams.

Requirements

• Experience in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, including tooling, investigations, and incident response.
• Strong understanding of modern threat actor techniques and the detection engineering lifecycle.
• Ability to review detection logic, Python code, and security system architectures.
• Experience building security operations automation, detection platforms, AI-driven detection capabilities, triage systems, response automation, or analyst tooling.
• Experience at a SaaS or cloud infrastructure company where security scale and complexity were significant challenges.
• Experience as a people leader focused on mentorship, team growth, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Experience leading threat hunts and improving detection coverage.
• Experience translating security research, threat intelligence, or analyst workflows into engineered systems.
• Experience designing SIEM pipelines, detection-as-code workflows, security content CI/CD, or detection observability.
• Experience shipping agentic or ML systems to production and leading their data, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring lifecycle.
• Experience designing safety controls, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop systems for autonomous AI in security.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace emphasizing office collaboration and work-life harmony.
• Competitive benefits package with healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
• New-hire stock equity, employee stock purchase plan, and 401(k) plan with matching.
• Paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and continuous career development opportunities.
• Mentor and cross-departmental buddy programs with an inclusive workplace culture.