Senior Software Engineer - Threat Intelligence & Detection Experiences (TIDEx)

About Us:

TIDEx builds and operates the infrastructure, automation, and user experiences that power Datadog’s Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting, and Cyber Threat Intelligence teams. We don’t author detection rules or produce threat intelligence ourselves. Instead, we make these teams more effective by:

• Supporting infrastructure, devops, and integration work.


• Delivering automation that scales their workflows.


• Designing intuitive, high-quality user experiences so security teams can focus on their core expertise without friction.

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:

• Partner closely with security engineers and security researchers to ensure their workflows scale without infrastructure bottlenecks.


• Operate adversary telemetry systems, such as deception environments and malware analysis platforms, to capture attacker behaviors.


• Build and maintain intelligence infrastructure, including a Threat Intelligence Platform, pipelines for ingestion, enrichment, and access to threat information.


• Design, build, and scale platforms that provide visibility into detection health, including dashboards and metrics to track coverage, drift, and readiness.


• Provide and optimize data pipelines and datasets that defenders rely on for investigations and validation.


• Develop automation that powers threat hunting at scale, enabling researchers to transform intelligence or reports into executable queries and workflows.


• Advocate for modern engineering practices in Go, Python, and other languages in a microservice-oriented, multi-cloud environment.


• Serve as a mentor to our team of software engineers

Who You Are:

• A software engineer who can turn ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems.


• Excited to collaborate with security engineers and security researchers, enabling them to focus on research and detection development by removing infrastructure and workflow friction.


• Comfortable with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP) and orchestration (Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure as code).


• Experienced with large-scale data pipelines and observability platforms.


• Fluent in one or more modern languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, etc.).


• Values collaboration, mentorship, and getting the right things done.

Bonus Points:

• Experience building production-ready AI/LLM-powered systems, from prototypes to deployed services.


• Breadth of experience across the full technology stack, including frontend development, command-line tools, and even web browser extensions.


• Experience deploying and maintaining open source or commercial threat intelligence platforms.

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)


• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing


• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking


• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)


• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions


• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+


• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.