Team Lead, Security Engineering - IAM Security
About Datadog:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The team:
As a team lead of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, you will build the team to own centralized identity and manage identity for internal, external and service identities.
The opportunity:
You will work with engineering teams to define a strategy for centralized identity management across many of Datadog’s internal applications and platforms. The decisions you make will have a significant impact on Datadog’s security posture.
We're looking for engineers with strong experience with authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), identity, and backgrounds in modern access control and auditing technologies. This includes public cloud infrastructure and container runtimes.
You will:
Lead an engineering team to develop platforms and systems to support IAM
Deploy role-based access control (RBAC) into environments
Streamline implementing authentication/authorization through services and libraries
Define and implement a consistent pattern for definition of access controls
Manage the single source of identity
Define and implement migration paths for existing services
Requirements:
Experience designing and implementing role-based authentication control (RBAC)
Experience with cloud identity management
Experience with Google Workspace
High level of situational and operational awareness
Strong interest in security
Can provide examples of the ability to solve difficult problems with engineering
Experience in core project languages (Golang / Python / Ruby)
Bonus points:
Creating complete identity solutions across multiple platforms/products
Experience with Hashicorp Vault
Experience with container runtime identity management
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Rule (“EPT”)
At Datadog, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including your work history and professional experience. These considerations potentially can cause your compensation to vary.
The Team Lead, Security Engineering - Identity & Access Management role has an annual starting salary of $150,000, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may be higher depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about Benefits click here.
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Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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