Senior Cloud Security Engineer - K8s

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · Security · listed April 14, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$187,000 – $240,000 USD
Requirements listed
10
Length
1,099 words

In the posting’s own words

As a Cloud Security Engineer you will partner with different stakeholders across the organization to secure our cloud infrastructure. As part of the Platform Security organization we secure the building blocks of Datadog’s applications and infrastructure. We do this by building solutions to solve systemic risks and combine an approach of making the secure path easier and the insecure path harder to secure and accelerate the business.

What it asks for · 10

  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.
  • Passionate about advocating for and implementing solutions to complex problems, at-scale, in a large multi-cloud environment.
  • You don’t want to just provide security recommendations, you want to help implement solutions to solve systemic issues.
  • You have prior experience in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, or Cloud Security.
  • You have experience developing, deploying, and extending service mesh systems in production Kubernetes environments.
  • Software engineering background with hands-on code review experience; Go, Python, or Rust
  • Experience with one or more Kubernetes PKI & network technologies (Consul, Envoy, Cillium, Vault, Istio, etc.).
  • Experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.
  • Able to work both independently and collaboratively, willing to work in a fast paced, high growth environment.
  • You stay updated with modern security best practices, technologies and emerging threats.

What the job covers

  • Solve our most challenging cloud infrastructure 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.

Degree language

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

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Datadog8×
  • Kubernetes7×
  • AWS2×
  • Azure2×
  • GCP2×
Security & compliance
  • Security15×
Languages
  • Go2×
  • Python2×
  • Rust2×
Ways of working
  • Code review2×

Words the posting leans on

  • security15×
  • experience12×
  • solutions11×
  • engineering10×
  • cloud8×
  • infrastructure8×
  • secure8×
  • kubernetes7×
  • build6×
  • enable6×
  • solve6×
  • products5×
  • want5×
  • internal4×
  • network4×
  • path4×

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