Senior Product Security Engineer - AI Agents

Overview

Senior Product Security Engineer for Bits Code, Datadog's cloud coding agent that automatically fixes problems Datadog surfaces, owning security architecture and implementation from design through production.

What you'll do

• Own the security architecture and implementation of Bits Code from early design through production operation.
• Work with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to identify risks and shape the product.
• Build threat models for new and existing agent risks such as prompt injection.
• Help the team ship secure software fast by writing and maintaining core libraries, and guiding processes and culture.
• Work with sandbox teams on how Bits Code executes untrusted workloads.
• Be on call; Datadog culture is that you build it, you run it.

What you'll need

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or at least 5+ years of professional experience, with a background in product security, application security, or security architecture.
• Experience securing systems that operate across complex trust boundaries.
• Experience building and operating full stack systems at scale.
• Familiarity with security risks in agentic systems and experience designing against them.
• Ability to make pragmatic security trade-offs.

Details

• Hybrid workplace; office-based culture with a hybrid arrangement.
• Locations: Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York (on-site/hybrid); remote options in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (USA).
• Salary range: $192,000 to $240,000 USD per year, plus equity and possible variable compensation.