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Senior Software Engineer - CI/CD Security

Datadog· SDLC Security
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New York, NY$192k - $240kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role in the CI/CD Security Team within Datadog's SDLC Security organization, focused on hardening pipelines, protecting credentials, and enforcing tightly scoped access controls across Datadog's CI/CD infrastructure, with emphasis on trusted build provenance, secure secret delivery, and real-time policy enforcement at high throughput.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:GoPythonCI/CDCloud platformsKubernetes
Nice to have:Rust

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
  • Inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, discounted employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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