Remote Senior Datadog Security & Observability Engineer

Keeper Security, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401K

Paid PTO

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Bonuses

Job summary

Keeper Security, Inc. is seeking a Senior DataDog Engineer to lead detection engineering and security observability across production and corporate environments.

This role focuses on scaling Datadog, cloud SIEM, log pipelines and telemetry, reporting to IT/Security leadership, and collaborating with Security Operations, SRE and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of hands-on Datadog experience, strong AWS knowledge, scripting skills, and a passion for threat detection.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Datadog experience in detection engineering and security observability.
• Hands-on production experience with Datadog in large cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Cloud SIEM, log management and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Datadog Cloud SIEM, security monitoring and observability capabilities across production and corporate environments.
• Design, build and maintain detection and telemetry capabilities across Datadog, SentinelOne, Wiz and related security platforms.
• Develop, test and tune high-fidelity Datadog detection rules aligned to real-world attack scenarios and adversary behaviors.
• Improve alert quality by reducing false positives, eliminating noise and increasing detection accuracy.
• Design and maintain Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes, archives and retention strategies.
• Implement and mature detection-as-code practices for scalable, version-controlled and testable rule management.
• Define and enforce logging, telemetry and instrumentation standards across cloud infrastructure, applications, endpoints and identity systems.
• Build and optimize log ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment and routing workflows.
• Automate onboarding of new telemetry sources and improve visibility across production and corporate environments.
• Correlate signals across Datadog, EDR, cloud, identity and security platforms to improve detection depth and investigation quality.
• Partner with Security Operations to improve triage workflows, incident response readiness and escalation quality.
• Build Datadog dashboards, monitors, analytics and reporting that support operational decision-making across Security, SRE and Engineering.
• Map and maintain detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK and identify telemetry and detection gaps.
• Perform detection gap assessments and evolve use cases based on threat intelligence, threat hunting and emerging risks.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, product and compliance teams to strengthen secure logging and observability patterns throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or similar platforms to support query development, detection engineering, investigations, automation and technical documentation.

Skills

Cloud security observability

Security engineering

Threat detection

Automation scripting

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

AWS

SentinelOne

Wiz

Job description

Keeper Security, Inc. is seeking a Senior DataDog Engineer to lead detection engineering and security observability across production and corporate environments.

This role focuses on scaling Datadog, cloud SIEM, log pipelines and telemetry, reporting to IT/Security leadership, and collaborating with Security Operations, SRE and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of hands-on Datadog experience, strong AWS knowledge, scripting skills, and a passion for threat detection.