Engineering Manager I - Threat Detection, Applied AI

As Engineering Manager I for Threat Detection - Applied AI, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog Security’s applied AI investments in detection engineering and security incident response. You will build and grow a team dedicated to engineering AI systems for Datadog's unique detection and response needs. By integrating these solutions with our current platform, your team will drive the use of applied AI to optimize and speed up security operations. Some examples include detection-authoring agents, model-driven coverage analysis, autonomous threat hunting, alert triage 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 contributes both by building the AI systems that author and tune detections 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 high-performing team of security and software engineers responsible for building and executing our AI and Security strategy. 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 the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog Security’s shift to AI accelerated detection & response.
• Drive development of high-fidelity detections as a shared responsibility across the organization, ensuring your team's AI systems and direct contributions raise the bar on coverage and signal quality.
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers who design, train, and tune AI systems for security.
• Partner with the sister teams so your team's deliverables are shipped reliably and leveraged by our security platform.
• Define and track program metrics: model and agent fidelity, evaluation pass rates, detection coverage, incident response readiness and your team's measurable contribution to security operations metrics.
• Evangelize the team's mission inside and outside the Threat Detection organization, communicating progress, tradeoffs, and bets clearly to security leadership and partner teams.
• Collaborate with the AI Engineering teams and other internal AI initiatives to build on shared infrastructure where it makes sense and invest in security-specific tooling where it does not.