
Senior Product Security Engineer - AI Agents
Datadog · Posted Oct 8
Cloud-scale monitoring, observability, and security platform services
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About the role
Bits Code is Datadog's cloud coding agent which fixes the problems that Datadog surfaces, as automatically as possible. The team shapes the architecture, tools, processes, and culture that keep security risk low while shipping product features quickly. This Senior Product Security Engineer role owns the security architecture and implementation of Bits Code, builds threat models for new and existing agent risks such as prompt injection, and works with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to ship secure software.
What you will do
- Own the security architecture and implementation of Bits Code from early design through production operation.
- Work with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to identify risks and shape the product.
- Build threat models for new and existing agent risks such as prompt injection.
- Help the team ship secure software fast by writing and maintaining core libraries, and guiding processes and culture.
- Work with our sandbox teams on how Bits Code executes untrusted workloads.
- Be on call. Datadog culture is that you build it, you run it.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or at least 5+ years of professional experience, with a background in product security, application security, or security architecture.
- You have experience securing systems that operate across complex trust boundaries.
- You have experience building and operating full stack systems at scale.
- You are familiar with security risks in agentic systems and have experience designing against them.
- You make pragmatic security trade-offs.
Benefits and support
- Competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous professional development
About Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. It integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and cloud security to provide real-time observability for modern development and operations teams.
- Industry
- Cloud Monitoring
- Company size
- 8100+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $147M raised
- 2010-07-27Series A$6.2M
- 2012-02-28Series B$15M
- 2014-01-23Series C$31M
- 2015-01-28Series D$94.5M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
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