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📍 United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community Do you thrive on designing secure, enterprise-scale solutions that protect critical systems, data, and networks? As a Lead Security Architect in Humana, you will play a key role in shaping the security blueprint for the organization by aligning security architecture and infrastructure with enterprise business and technology priorities. In this role, you will partner with EIP and business leaders to assess emerging threats, identify architectural gaps, and design forward-looking security solutions that strengthen Humana's overall security posture. You will also lead security assessments, vulnerability analysis, and product security reviews while helping develop innovative testing approaches and mitigation strategies for evolving risks. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence enterprise architecture, guide secure technology design, and help protect the business through strategic, modern security architecture. The Lead Security Architect engages with relevant EIP stakeholders to identify current and emerging security threats and works to design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge. Additionally, the role actively works to identify gaps within existing EIP reference architecture and designs updates to impacted security architecture elements to mitigate emerging threats. Performs and oversees efforts to conduct vulnerability testing, risk analysis, and security assessments of relevant enterprise / EIP infrastructure. Ensures EIP and Humana stakeholder security requirements are necessary to protect Humana's business functions and are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture. The Lead Security Architect role is aligned to a segment (line of business) to proactively discover security issues during solution design and prevent vulnerabilities during development.

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Industrial Security team enables OpenAI’s classified and national security work by building secure, compliant programs that support government customers and protect sensitive information. We partner across Security, Legal, People, Facilities, Engineering, IT, and program leadership to translate complex government requirements into practical operating models that allow important work to move forward responsibly. Our work spans personnel security, classified facilities, special programs, government customer engagement, and the safeguards required to operate in highly regulated environments. About the Role As a Senior Special Programs Security Manager, you will lead security operations for OpenAI’s Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP), serving in customer-designated roles such as Contractor Special Security Officer (CSSO) or Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO). You will help shape how OpenAI operates across the Intelligence Community and other national security environments, building the relationships, processes, and security foundations required to support classified work at scale. We’re looking for someone who brings deep special programs expertise, sound operational judgment, and the credibility to work directly with government customers and senior internal stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone comfortable navigating ambiguity, helping build the function, mentoring future team members, and finding compliant paths forward when mission needs and security requirements intersect. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, or Washington, DC. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Additional onsite presence and occasional travel may be required based on classified program, facility, and government customer needs. This position requires active Top Secret eligibility, current SCI access, and a current counterintelli

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📍 Mountain View, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Corporate Security team is responsible for safeguarding all OpenAI employees and executives. Our mission is to create a secure, resilient environment that allows our teams to focus on their work without risk or disruption. We manage physical security operations across offices, events, and global initiatives, partnering closely with internal teams and external agencies to stay ahead of emerging threats. About the Role As the Corporate Security Operations Manager based in Mountain View, you will own day-to-day site security operations and help develop practical physical-security strategies, policies, and procedures. You will lead vendor-managed armed and unarmed security teams, partner cross-functionally, and serve as a key liaison with local law enforcement and security partners. This is a hands-on site-operations and guard-force leadership role, not primarily an executive, investigative, or policy-leadership position. The role typically requires 4-5 days in the office each week. In this role, you will: Office Security: Develop, implement, and manage practical physical-security measures, including policies, training, and vendor relationships, to protect employees and visitors across the Mountain View site and nearby facilities. Operational Management: Own the day-to-day performance of vendor-managed armed and unarmed security teams across shifts and locations. Set clear operational expectations and ensure security personnel understand and consistently follow company policies, post orders, and procedures. Monitor security practices, identify operational risks, and drive timely, practical mitigation and remediation. Coordinate with Workplace, Facilities, building management, law enforcement, and other internal and external partners to maintain a cohesive security posture. Support broader Corporate Security operations as needed. Support or lead security operations for on-campus events. Serve as the primary point of contact for VIP and government-guest

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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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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $385.1K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Principal Security Software Engineer in the Enterprise Security team, you will advance Roblox's Enterprise Security strategy by building the systems and integrations that protect Roblox's corporate infrastructure. Where traditional security engineers evaluate and deploy vendor solutions, you will design and build production-grade security software - Identity and Access governance, policy enforcement engines, and security integrations that scale with Roblox's business. You'll partner with security professionals across InfoSec and work cross-functionally with Corporate Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to drive security initiatives. You will: Build identity and access systems : Design, implement, and own integrations across Roblox's IAM ecosystem, including SSO federation, SCIM provisioning/deprovisioning pipelines, OAuth 2.0 authorization servers, and token lifecycle management. Lead security automation : Develop production-quality tools and services that enforce security policies at scale, replace manual workflows, and surface actionable signals Drive secure-by-design implementations : Partner with Corporate Engineering, DevOps, and product teams to embed security controls in

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time
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Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role: SoFi's Cyber Defense organization is looking for an Offensive Security Lead to mature and grow our Penetration Testing and Red Team functions. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has spent years both doing the work and building the program around it — someone equally comfortable running a red team engagement against a critical banking platform and designing the operating model that lets a small team of offensive operators keep pace with a fast-growing fintech. A defining part of this role is modernizing how the team scales. We're looking for a leader who has already built and implemented AI-assisted penetration testing and red teaming programs — using AI tooling to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, attack-path analysis, and reporting — and who can bring that experience to bear on the program. You'll own the strategy, staffing, tooling, and execution quality of both disciplines, report into Cyber Defense leadership, and act as a trusted advisor to engineering, product, and risk partners across the company. What You’ll Do: Lead and unify Penetration Testing and Red Team into a single, cohesive Offensive Security function — shared standards, shared tradecraft, shared reporting, distinct missions. Set and execute the offensive security roadmap, aligning testing scope

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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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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: Replit’s ecosystem is powered by an expanding array of external services and essential AI model partners. As our lead for Security Vendor Risk & Contract Reviews, you will architect and execute a risk management program focused on substantive evaluation rather than just processing checklists. You’ll analyze SOC 2 documentation, security assessments, and system architectures to determine actual risk profiles, collaborating with our Legal team to secure necessary contractual protections. This role reports to the Head of Security GRC and involves high-impact partnerships across Legal, Engineering, and Product teams. What You'll Do Run substantive third-party risk management (TPRM), independently evaluating real risk, not just processing questionnaire responses Review SOC 2 reports, pen test findings, and architecture documentation to form an independent view of vendor risk, extending the same rigor to AI/model providers Partner with Legal on vendor and AI contract terms, including DPAs, subprocessor agreements, and AI-specific provisions Review contracts for non-standard security language when flagged by Legal or deal desk, and recommend redlines Maintain the vendor and AI/model risk register, feeding findings into the company's master risk register Enable sales through maturing the customer trust program Build the capability for continuous monitoring of vendor ecosystem Required Skills & Experience 8+ years in third-party/vendor risk management, security risk, or a related GRC role Demonstrated ability to independently assess vendor risk rather than relying on questionnaire responses alone, fluent in reading SOC 2 reports, ISO certificates, pen test summaries, and architecture documentation Experi

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore fosters continuous learning and innovation. Job Summary Reporting into the Systems Engineering organisation, the Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect will define and lead the security architecture for Graphcore’s inference service platform. This role is responsible for establishing a comprehensive security strategy spanning platform, infrastructure, networking, service operations, customer assurance, and compliance readiness. Working across multiple engineering and operational functions, the successful candidate will provide technical leadership, drive security requirements, and ensure the platform delivers robust protection, resilience, and trust for customers. The Team You will work closely with teams across security architecture, infrastructure engineering, networking, site reliability engineering, platform software, firmware, data centre operations, compliance, legal, customer engineering, and customer security. The team collaborates across the business to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable AI infrastructure and services while supporting customer assurance, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence. Responsibilities and Duties Own the end-to-end security a

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Software Engineer Overview Join a team responsible for building the authentication and security solutions that help protect digital interactions across Mastercard's Identity Solutions platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing applications that enable trusted identity verification, authentication, and fraud prevention capabilities. In this role, you will take ownership of complex technical challenges, contribute to software design and architecture decisions, and partner closely with product, security, and platform teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions. You'll play a key role in advancing engineering excellence through secure development practices, system reliability, automation, and continuous improvement while mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction across the team. Role •Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, cloud-native applications and microservices •Develop REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability •Translate requirements into well-structured designs and architecture, ensuring maintainability and security •Lead and contribute to system design discussions, aligning with architectural standards and best practices<

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. We are looking for a Security Operations Lead (SOC Lead) to build, mature, and operate our 24/7 detection and response capabilities across a modern cloud-native and AI-driven environment. This role leads the global SOC function—monitoring, SIEM ownership, detection engineering, alert triage, and operational readiness—while also evaluating and integrating emerging AI-based SOC products and autonomous response platforms . You will oversee monitoring across multi-cloud environments (GCP primary, AWS/Azure secondary), Kubernetes, SaaS services, endpoints, developer tools, and AI workloads . You’ll collaborate closely with Cloud Security, Compliance/GRC, SRE, Platform Engineering, IT/Endpoint teams, and AI Infrastructure to ensure our detection strategy scales and stays ahead of evolving threats. This is a hands-on leadership role perfect for someone who wants to shape the SOC of the future while solving complex challenges in a high-scale AI setting. What You’ll Do SOC Leadership & 24/7 Monitoring Lead, mentor, and scale a global SOC team responsible for 24/7 monitoring, alert intake, triage, correlation, and escalation. Build operational rigor: processes, runbooks, SLAs, metrics, and quality standards for high-scale environments. Cover monitoring across: Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Kubernetes/GKE/EKS/AKS clusters SaaS platforms (Google Workspace, GitHub, Slack, Okta, etc.) Endpoints (macOS, Linux, Windows) including EDR/XDR telemetry Developer platforms + CI/CD pipelines AI/ML systems and model-serving workflows AI-Based SOC Integration & Innovation Evaluate, adopt, and integrate AI-native SOC technologies for triaging, detection, and correlation Identify opportunities to automate triage, investigations,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework , and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. About the role The stakes of securing OpenAI increases as our internal coding and research becomes increasingly driven by autonomous AI agents. Compromising these agents could allow a cyber threat actor to compromise many other parts of the company. In this role, you would lead Preparedness work defending the security of our internal AI agents against insiders, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), or powerful AI agents. We’re looking for a strong hands-on technical executor with experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors. In this role, you will: Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems. Identify security investments that are especially critical to make in advance; for example, prioritizing by implementation lead-times, costs, and benefit. Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs. Lead technical execution directly when needed, including prototyping controls, writing and reviewing software, and coordinating engineers across teams. Work with penetration testers to close gaps in defenses. You might thrive in this role if you: Are an exceptional hands-on technical executor. Have worked with advanced

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $326.1K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Principal Security Software Engineer, you will be reporting to the Manager of Application Security leading the Security Design and Review pod. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the growth of Information Security's (InfoSec) Application Security team, collaborating with engineering teams early in their processes to provide secure design solutions and establish security standards. Your responsibilities will include threat modeling, secure system design, automation, and penetration testing. As a key member of the team, you will drive company-wide projects across diverse tech stacks, working with engineering leaders to remediate security challenges. You will define and evolve the technical vision for scaling application security practices across the organization. You will: Lead company-wide security initiatives to address critical security challenges. Build and nurture cross-company relationships to achieve security objectives. Provide guidance on product security processes and standards. Define and expand partnerships with key engineering teams across Roblox. Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to develop security protocols and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Re

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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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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