Engineering Manager I, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (EMEA)
Datadog
Job Description
The Team:
As an Engineering Manager on the Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (DE&TH) team, you will lead a team of security engineers responsible for developing high-fidelity detection content across a diverse set of log integrations, with a strong focus on cloud-native data. You will drive the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our detection capabilities to identify and respond to emerging threats across Datadog’s infrastructure. Partnering closely with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and internal engineering teams, you’ll ensure our detection program scales effectively while fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented team environment. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will shape both technical direction and team development while leveraging Datadog’s own security products to enhance our defenses.
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, mentor, and grow a team of detection engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance feedback.
• Define and drive the detection engineering lifecycle to identify threats across Datadog’s infrastructure and manage a scalable, prioritized detection backlog.
• Build and lead a metrics-driven detection engineering program, defining clear success measures (e.g., coverage, fidelity, response impact) and holding the team accountable to measurable security outcomes.
• Partner with Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams during security incidents, guiding threat hunting strategies, and owning the rapid deployment of detections to close gaps and support response and containment
• Oversee the research and operationalization of log telemetry from the Datadog Logs platform into actionable security detections.
• Improve tea...
As an Engineering Manager on the Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (DE&TH) team, you will lead a team of security engineers responsible for developing high-fidelity detection content across a diverse set of log integrations, with a strong focus on cloud-native data. You will drive the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our detection capabilities to identify and respond to emerging threats across Datadog’s infrastructure. Partnering closely with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and internal engineering teams, you’ll ensure our detection program scales effectively while fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented team environment. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will shape both technical direction and team development while leveraging Datadog’s own security products to enhance our defenses.
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, mentor, and grow a team of detection engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance feedback.
• Define and drive the detection engineering lifecycle to identify threats across Datadog’s infrastructure and manage a scalable, prioritized detection backlog.
• Build and lead a metrics-driven detection engineering program, defining clear success measures (e.g., coverage, fidelity, response impact) and holding the team accountable to measurable security outcomes.
• Partner with Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams during security incidents, guiding threat hunting strategies, and owning the rapid deployment of detections to close gaps and support response and containment
• Oversee the research and operationalization of log telemetry from the Datadog Logs platform into actionable security detections.
• Improve tea...
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