Engineering Manager I, Threat Detection

jobr.pro; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

jobr.pro is seeking an Engineering Manager for Threat Detection to lead a high-performing team dedicated to enhancing Datadog's detection program in New York. In this impactful leadership role, you will be responsible for growing a team of security and software engineers, driving the detection and AI strategy while collaborating with various teams for optimal security practices.

The role involves significant responsibilities including building systems, writing detections, and continuously improving threat detection capabilities. The perfect candidate will have a strong background in threat detection and cloud-native engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading high-performing technical teams.
• Expertise in threat detection and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Proficiency in AI and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of security and software engineers.
• Develop and execute detection and AI strategy.
• Collaborate with Security Incident & Response Team and Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Job description

Overview

As Engineering Manager for Threat Detection, you will lead a high‑performing team that powers Datadog's detection program. Threat Detection is the organization responsible for keeping Datadog ahead of an evolving threat environment: closing coverage gaps faster, raising the bar on signal quality, and shipping detections that hold up under the scale and complexity of cloud‑native infrastructure.

Your team will combine direct detection expertise, platform engineering, and applied AI to ship detections at a pace and scale traditional rule‑writing alone cannot match. Examples of what your team will work on include detection‑authoring agents, the detection platform that powers every rule in production, coverage analysis, alert triage and response automation, and the evaluation infrastructure that holds these systems to a high bar of fidelity. Detection authorship is a shared responsibility across the organization, and your team will contribute both by building the systems that scale our authoring capacity and by writing detections directly when their domain expertise is the right tool.

You will partner closely with our Security Incident & Response Team (SIRT), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), AI Engineering teams, and Datadog's broader Security organization. This is a high‑impact leadership role: you will grow a team of security and software engineers responsible for building and executing our detection and AI strategy.