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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $225K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to serve as a technical leader and strategic contributor within our Product Security team. This role goes beyond execution — you will drive the evolution of CLEAR’s application security posture by influencing architecture, shaping security engineering processes, and mentoring team members in security and engineering. You’ll lead security initiatives across the organization and help embed security into every stage of our software development lifecycle. What you'll do: Drive security strategy and implementation across all CLEAR products and engineering teams, ensuring consistent protection of customer and business-critical assets. Partner with engineering leadership to align application security initiatives with company-wide technology and product roadmaps, balancing innovation with risk mitigation. Provide technical leadership across CLEAR’s application security initiatives, guiding architecture, design, and development to meet high security standards. Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams — including Engineering, DevOps, Product, GRC, and IT — enabling secure-by-design practices across the organization. Design and drive implementation of scalable automated security controls and testing frameworks integrated into CLEAR’s CI/CD pipelines. Lead complex threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments across high-value systems and platforms, driving meaningful security outcomes. Engage with CLEAR's customers to provide insight and support their fraud and ident

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Security Systems Engineer at Palantir, you are responsible for implementing, designing, and maintaining the physical security systems that ensure the protection of Palantir’s people, assets, intellectual property, and reputation. You lead research and evaluations for the latest technology, security infrastructure, policies, procedures, systems, and applications, looking for easy-to-use capabilities that reduce button clicks and ultimately give time back to the operator. You will be collaborating with technical teams to develop and maintain end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery. Your technical expertise is second only to your integrity and genuine passion for security and technology. As a member of the Global Security and Investigations team, you work with security professionals, architects, lawyers, and software and network engineers to deliver a safe and secure environment for your fellow employees. Palantir is a global company, so you'll lead physical security projects all over the world. You'll work hard to break down barriers between teams by communicating your knowledge and goals effectively across time zones and other physical and virtual barriers. *Please note this role is NOT for cyber security or information security positions* Core Responsibilities Design and oversee the technical aspects of your projects from conception to full deployment. Systems naturally break and need maintenance. You'll work with vendors and end users to find the best solutions for a problem, in the shortest possible time. Leverage both system and software engineering skills in order to address the needs of all teams within Globa

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role The Product Security team helps make Ramp the most secure place for our customers to collect, manage, and put to work their business’ financial information. Our work centers in three areas: Ramp builds products with an eye for security Ramp detects and responds to threats before they cause harm Security powers Ramp’s growth Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values! What You’ll Do Build security-focused application primitives and integrate them into our existing products Design and deploy platform-level mitigations to common security issues Lead remediation of prioritized issues across our technology stack: collaborating with other engineers to triage and fix vulnerabilities discovered internally, through penetration testing, and through our bug bounty program Partner with engineering teams to design and deploy solutions which are inherently secure Champion the use of tooling (linters, static analysis, posture assessment scanners, query inspectors, etc.) which help Ramp engineers build secure system

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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Datadog is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Area Vice President, Enterprise Security Sales to lead our Enterprise Security Sales organization and scale Datadog’s security business through a tightly integrated co-sell motion with Enterprise Account Executives. This senior leader will own the Enterprise Security strategy, ensuring security resources are deployed effectively to influence pipeline creation, deal progression, and multi-product adoption across Datadog’s largest and most strategic enterprise accounts. This senior leader will be responsible for driving market expansion and establishing Datadog as a trusted strategic partner to CISOs and security leadership teams. The role sits at the intersection of GTM design, sales execution, cross-functional orchestration, and customer value creation—ideal for a leader passionate about scaling high-growth security businesses. 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: Recruit, build, manage, and develop a world-class team of Enterprise Security Directors and Enterprise Security Sales Specialists. Own Enterprise Security revenue contribution and influence targets, ensuring consistent attainment through effective co-selling with Enterprise AEs. Inform and evolve Datadog’s Enterprise Security overlay strategy, including coverage models, specialist-to-AE ratios, rules of engagement, and prioritization frameworks. Define and own the Enterprise Security pipeline generation strategy within a co-sell / overlay model, establishing clear rules of engagement for when and how Security Specia

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Join our growing security team and help drive security detection and response initiatives across Ramp. This will include a focus on maturing our security detection and alerting capabilities across our federal and public sector environments. Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC HQ (located near Madison Square Park) at least 2 days/week What You’ll Do Respond and assist with security requests and incidents submitted by Ramp team members Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify potential security incidents and perform initial triage on identified incidents Contribute to the creation, upkeep, and tuning of runbooks and security alerts to effectively handle, triage, and improve security alerts Work closely with the Ramp Security Engineers to improve security alerting and automated remediation Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of tactics, techniques and patterns of attackers Design and implement automation to detect and respond t

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! The Strategy & Business Operations team’s mission is to support decision making on critical C-level topics and act as a force-multiplier for functional priorities across the organization. We are looking for a BizOps Lead to join the team, reporting to the Head of BizOps, focused on strategy, corporate development, and cross-functional projects. In this intermediate level individual contributor role, you may: Influence strategic decision-making by collaborating with and building consensus among leaders across the organization, including product, GTM, and research and engineering Optimize pricing and packaging, ensuring that the company's offerings are both attractive to customers and profitable Build financial models and analyses to evaluate new and existing opportunities Contribute to corporate development activities: fundraising, strategic partnerships, investor relations, M&A, etc. Conduct market and competitive analysis to anticipate and respond to emerging trends and to identify new opportunities for innovation and growth This role is a good match if you: Have 3-4 years of top tier investment banking / investing expe

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$145K – $170K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. CLEAR is seeking a Senior Security Operations Analyst III to join our SOC team to help strengthen our ability to detect, investigate, and respond to evolving security threats. In this role, you’ll lead complex investigations, improve CLEAR’s threat detection and response capabilities, and serve as a trusted security partner while helping develop the analysts and program around you. What you'll do: Lead complex investigations of security events across corporate networks, endpoints, data centers, cloud environments, and other critical systems, driving incidents from initial analysis through escalation and remediation Develop, tune, and optimize threat detection logic across SIEM, EDR, and other security platforms, proactively identifying coverage gaps, reducing false positives, and improving the fidelity of security alerts Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, and other teams to investigate threats, identify root causes, communicate risk, and drive timely remediation and improvements to CLEAR’s security posture Apply threat intelligence, data, automation, and AI-enabled tools to identify emerging attack patterns, accelerate investigations, improve detection workflows, and strengthen decision-making while applying sound security judgment Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for other analysts, mentoring junior team members, sharing knowledge, and helping establish scalable processes, playbooks, and standards for threat detection and analysis Continuously evaluate CLEAR’s detection coverage against the evolving t

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -99.2%

From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role The Security Engineering team helps make Ramp the most secure place for our customers to collect, manage, and put to work their business’ financial information Our work centers in three areas: Ramp builds products with an eye for security Ramp detects and responds to threats before they cause harm Security powers Ramp’s growth Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values! What You’ll Do Drive our cloud security roadmap: review our cloud deployments to identify opportunities for improvement Design and build security-focused infrastructure primitives and integrate them into our existing products and development processes Lead remediation of prioritized issues across our technology stack Partner with infrastructure, data, and devops teams to design and deploy solutions that are inherently secure What You Need Minimum 5 years of experience building software Minimum 3 years of experience building in AWS (with Terraform) A strong sense of ownership: you need to drive projects from inception to scaling it in

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $116K/yr

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We're looking for someone to join the Datadog Procurement team and help expand the Strategic Sourcing group. Make an impact by being a trusted subject matter expert in several buying categories and continuing to prove the value that Strategic Sourcing brings to the organization. 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: Lead strategic sourcing for enterprise SaaS and IT categories - owning net-new purchases and complex, high-spend renewals through a documented, collaborative evaluation process, with action plans built well ahead of renewal dates. Own software license and subscription strategy, right-sizing entitlements, minimizing shelfware, and replacing last-minute buying with forward-looking renewal and demand planning. Lead the IT hardware procurement team responsible for purchasing, sourcing, and replenishment (laptops, peripherals, networking, office AV), balancing demand with headcount and multi-region growth while leveraging OEM/distributor relationships and buying scale. Lead the transformation of IT Procurement (hardware and SaaS licenses) from transactional to strategic - standardizing processes, introducing supplier-management discipline, and establishing operational metrics and KPIs. Develop strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders and collaborate on strategizing the purchase plan, negotiating pricing and other business terms with vendors on net-new purchases and complex, high-spend renewals, partnering cross-functionally with Procurement Operations, Legal, Security, IT, and Office Operations to ensure compliant, scalable execution. Create pricing models based on vendor proposals to quantify various buying scenarios related to our future growth and current demand Manage and develop a direct report, with

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world to defend the enterprise from code-to-cloud-to-runtime. Used by thousands of companies globally, Datadog security products uniquely leverage Datadog’s unified security and observability platform so Security, DevOps and SRE can collaborate rapidly and seamlessly to deliver better detection, prioritization and remediation. Our product and engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. In this competitive market, the Group Product Manager for Code Security will play a mission-critical role in providing product and strategy leadership to grow Datadog’s market share through differentiation, innovation and compelling customer value. This leader will lead a talented and growing team of product managers and work with world class engineers to build and grow multiple Code Security products that play an essential role for our customers’ code security programs, and growing Datadog into a security industry leader. 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: Run and grow multiple Code Security products to meet revenue and business targets with the goal of building a multi-hundred million dollar annual business. Lead and own product strategy and roadmap for accountable security products, fully aligned to revenue and business goals and with compelling differentiation and customer value. Ensure predictable roadmap execution across direct and partner teams to achieve product and business outcomes required to meet the revenue and business goals. Analyze and develop pricing and packaging strategies to maximize revenue through attaching deep understanding of market dynamics and other strategic leverage points. Drive GTM strategy with GTM partner teams

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📍 New York, California, United States· Full-time
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From $154K/yr

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We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager to join our security product marketing team and help bring Datadog’s rapidly growing security offerings to market. In this high-impact role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Enablement to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling narratives that drive awareness, adoption, and differentiation. As the first hire in this space, you'll own key go-to-market efforts, lead technical positioning for strategic initiatives, and mentor others on content strategy and enablement best practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape how Datadog tells its security story to a global market. 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: Define and execute the technical marketing plan for Datadog’s security product line, from launches to scaled adoption. Partner cross-functionally with Product, PMM, Sales Engineering, and Enablement to craft differentiated messaging, inform roadmap decisions, and build cross-product solution narratives. Create and deliver high-impact sales tools including battlecards, investigation flows, objection handling guides, and competitive workshops. Lead competitive strategy by synthesizing market insights and producing content that positions Datadog as a differentiated leader in cloud-native security. Act as a technical subject matter expert and trusted advisor — coaching field teams, reviewing enablement content, and influencing internal strategy. Represent Datadog in customer briefings, industry events, and webinars, serving as a go-to voice on observability and security. Who You Are: 8+ years of experience in technical product marketing, developer relations, product management, solutions engineering, or related roles in

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products.The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security. We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security "left" by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers. Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team. Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a Senior software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the "secure path" the only path for Plaid developers. The Role You will lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes. You

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Security Engineering is the engineering function inside the Plaid security org that focuses on developing the industry-leading security systems and infrastructure. Security Engineering owns most of Plaid’s security-related infrastructure: secure data storage, key management systems, internal identity platform, internal authentication systems, internal permission management, and internal authorization service. We develop solutions across data encryption, key management, access control, and data loss prevention to protect sensitive consumer data. We believe in the Zero Trust security model and are always looking for ways to improve our authentication and access control platforms. About the role: You will develop security capabilities to secure Plaid infrastructure and sensitive data access. You will lead the team’s strategic planning in collaboration with the manager and other senior engineers. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s security infrastructure and services like IAM Gateway, Key Management System and Network Firewall. You will consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards. You will help educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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In this competitive market, the Group Product Manager for Cloud Security will play a mission-critical role in providing product and strategy leadership to grow Datadog’s market share through differentiation, innovation and compelling customer value. This leader will lead a talented and growing team of product managers and work with world class engineers to build and grow multiple Cloud Security products that play an essential role for our customers’ cloud security programs, and growing Datadog into a security industry leader. You Will: Run and grow multiple Cloud Security products to meet revenue and business targets with the goal of building a multi-hundred million dollar annual business. Lead and own product strategy and roadmap for accountable security products, fully aligned to revenue and business goals and with compelling differentiation and customer value. Ensure predictable roadmap execution across direct and partner teams to achieve product and business outcomes required to meet the revenue and business goals. Analyze and develop pricing and packaging strategies to maximize revenue through attaching deep understanding of market dynamics and other strategic leverage points. Drive GTM strategy with GTM partner teams to achieve revenue and business goals Fulfill the role as the product-leader representative across accountable product lines with analyst, press and customer communities Manage and grow individual contributor (IC) Product Managers, ensuring they are motivated, delivering high quality work and finding high fulfillment. Model and contribute to a culture of learning and collaboration across product management and the broader organization Raise the bar of PM leadership through leadership in strategy development, roadmap planning and execution, GTM and overall product-leader responsibilities. You Are: An experienced leader in Product Management with demonstrated business growth and customer adoption success in the CNAPP, data and AI

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $154K/yr

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Datadog’s Implementation Services team helps customers implement and deploy Datadog quickly and successfully. Our team of architects leads the discovery, design, build, and launch of the Datadog platform to help customers accelerate time to value and get the most out of their investment. As a Senior Services Architect focused on Security and Cloud SIEM, you will help customers design, implement, and operationalize Datadog’s security capabilities across cloud, infrastructure, application, and log data sources. You will lead structured, outcome-driven professional services engagements delivered through a day-based professional services delivery model, partnering directly with customers through co-development working sessions, architecture workshops, implementation planning, and operational handoff. This role is ideal for someone who combines customer-facing consulting experience with strong cybersecurity knowledge, hands-on Cloud SIEM implementation skills, and an understanding of security control frameworks such as NIST 800-53, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or similar standards. 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: Design and guide execution of Datadog implementations, focusing on Security and Cloud SIEM deployment, including discovery, requirements gathering, technical architecture, deployment planning, and launch. Partner with customers to map security requirements, controls, and monitoring objectives to Datadog capabilities, including frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or similar standards. Advise customers on security data strategy, including log source prioritization, parsing, normalizat

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