Senior Security Researcher - Threat Intelligence

The Security Research Team at Datadog conducts cutting-edge research in Cloud Security, Threat Research, Application Security, and Detection Engineering. The team uses this research to track the evolving threat landscape, improve Datadog’s security posture and our customer’s security posture, and to help the community via publications, disclosures and information sharing. As a part of the Security Research organization, you will join a diverse team of hackers, researchers, and builders who consistently deliver industry-leading research.

The Opportunity:

As a Security Researcher specializing in Cyber Threat Intelligence, you will be a subject matter expert on how the cyber threat landscape intersects with Datadog. You will work closely with internal detection & response teams to execute the cyber threat intelligence lifecycle, and deliver insights and intelligence products to optimize our detection & response processes. You will also develop and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, such as our threat research and product teams, and information sharing partners, to help impose cost on threat actors trying to negatively affect our company, customers and our industry. You will also serve as an intelligence workstream during security incidents, leveraging your expertise and knowledge of our space to help direct teams on how to appropriately hunt and respond to threats in real time.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do:

• Build our cyber threat intelligence program with our Threat Detection leadership, focusing on disseminating timely and relevant threat intelligence to internal teams
• Leverage internal and 3rd party tools to build a picture of the Datadog threat landscape, adjusting it as the threat landscape changes, and inject that data into Datadog telemetry to help find threats
• Participate in emerging events, such as emerging vulnerabilities or threats, to help stakeholders understand impact on Datadog
• Assist our security research arm in identifying new clusters of activity to hunt for in our telemetry
• Actively coordinate with relevant information sharing communities to fast-track intelligence dissemination for the purpose of protecting Datadog, our customers and the community
• Provide threat briefings and build relationships with the greater Datadog engineering organization, so that every Datadog employee can understand the threat landscape
• Collaborate with the Datadog Security Research & Community teams to create research content (blogs, webinars, conferences) and build external partnerships advancing global cybersecurity
• Conduct external threat hunts to map attacker infrastructure relevant to Datadog, and disseminate technical intelligence into our security products which protect Datadog and thousands of other customers

Who You Are: 

• Advanced understanding of the cyber threat intelligence lifecycle, including building and maintaining intelligence requirements
• Be able to write and present technical but accessible long form strategic intelligence content for senior leadership
• Be able to write and present operational and technical intelligence content for our threat detection and response teams
• Experience in coordinating closely with threat detection and response teams to help direct investigations, develop a detections backlog, and improve response playbooks based on relevant attacker TTPs
• Experience and connected with information sharing communities and the ability to execute sound judgment on ingesting and acting on TLP-marked intelligence
• Experience in nation-state and cybercrime, especially those that target cloud environments and customers of Datadog

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Why You Should Apply: 

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture