✦ Luna Orbit — Cybersecurity

Senior Sales Engineer - Majors West

at Datadog

📍 California, USA, Remote Remote Posted March 11, 2026
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Position Details

Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 3+ years
Education Not specified
Category Cybersecurity

About this role

This role involves developing and operationalizing threat detection content for Datadog’s security platform, focusing on cloud-native environments and real-time threat detection.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop threat detection content
  • Research attacker techniques
  • Operationalize telemetry data
  • Mentor junior security engineers
  • Collaborate with product teams

Technical Overview

The technical environment includes threat detection content creation, cloud native datasets, runtime security events, SOC operations, and open source security tools.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior security engineer with over 3 years of experience in threat detection and security content development, familiar with cloud native datasets and SOC operations. They are creative, research-oriented, and capable of mentoring junior team members.

Must-Have Skills

3+ years in security engineering or threat detectionExperience with cloud native datasets and runtime eventsAbility to develop detection contentStrong analytical and research skillsAbility to mentor junior engineers

Nice-to-Have Skills

Open source contributionsExperience with security tools and platformsConference speaking experience

Tools & Platforms

Security PlatformThreat Detection ToolsData PlatformsOpen Source Tools

Required Skills

Threat DetectionSecurity Content DevelopmentThreat IntelligenceCloud Native DatasetsWorkload Runtime EventsSecurity InvestigationDetection LifecycleSOCSecurity PlatformData-Driven Insights

Hard Skills

Threat DetectionSecurity Content DevelopmentThreat IntelligenceCloud Native DatasetsWorkload Runtime EventsSecurity InvestigationDetection LifecycleSOCSecurity PlatformData-Driven InsightsSecurity SignalAgentic SOCSecurity ResearchOpen Source Initiatives

Soft Skills

ResearchCreativityCollaborationMentoringCommunicationProblem Solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS
Job Function Threat detection engineering and security research for enterprise security platform

Keywords for Your Resume

Threat DetectionSecurity Content DevelopmentThreat IntelligenceCloud Native DatasetsWorkload Runtime EventsSecurity InvestigationDetection LifecycleSOCSecurity PlatformData-Driven InsightsSecurity SignalAgentic SOCSecurity ResearchOpen Source

Deal Breakers

Less than 3 years of security engineering experience, Lack of experience with cloud native datasets, Inability to work independently on detection lifecycle

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