Role Overview

Join Datadog as an Engineering Manager - Security Incident Response (EMEA) in Paris, France, and lead the charge in keeping our cloud-scale monitoring and security platform resilient against threats. At Datadog, our Security Incident Response team within the Resilience Engineering organization ensures rapid threat containment, efficient response, and post-incident learning. You'll manage a talented group of engineers building tools, automation, and processes using Datadog Cloud SIEM and observability best practices. This hybrid role in Paris emphasizes office culture for collaboration while supporting work-life harmony. As a hands-on leader, you'll drive incident resolution, mentor engineers, and shape strategy in a high-impact security team. Datadog's cloud observability platform powers DevOps teams worldwide—now fortify it from within.

Key Responsibilities at Datadog

As Engineering Manager in Security Incident Response, your action-oriented role includes:

• Lead and mentor experienced incident responders passionate about security resilience, providing growth opportunities and career development.
• Serve hands-on during incidents: Lead under pressure, decide in ambiguity, collaborate cross-team, and participate in secondary on-call rotation.
• Triage alerts in Datadog Cloud SIEM consistently for high-quality threat response.
• Partner with Threat Detection to tune SIEM signals delivering real value.
• Build tools and automation to mature incident response capabilities, measuring operational success.
• Lead post-incident analysis with blameless postmortems, capturing actionable fixes for systemic issues.
• Collaborate with product management on feature feedback and security improvements.
• Shape strategy and culture as part of the leadership team, working with stakeholders across Datadog.
• Drive team velocity using OKRs, performance management, and inclusive hiring practices.

This role demands technical depth in distributed systems and security, blended with leadership to elevate Datadog's resilience.

Qualifications & Requirements

Datadog seeks candidates with proven expertise in cloud security and engineering leadership:

• 2-3 years as people manager or technical leader with mentorship, career development, OKRs, velocity optimization, and diverse hiring.
• 3-5 years in security incident response programs, owning large-scale threats beyond team boundaries.
• Technical pragmatism for reviewing RFCs, balancing trade-offs with business acumen.
• Strong distributed systems knowledge to support customer-facing infra and analyze postmortems.
• Stakeholder management via empathy, collaboration, and English communication for remote work.

Datadog values passion over perfection—if you're driven by technology, security observability, and DevOps resilience, apply even if not every box is checked.

Salary & Benefits

Earn competitive €95,000 - €135,000 yearly base (market estimate for Paris EMEA Engineering Manager in security), plus equity in Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG). Benefits include:

• Competitive Equity packages for long-term growth.
• Family Health Insurance with comprehensive coverage.
• Commuter Benefits for Paris hybrid commutes.
• Fitness Reimbursements and wellness support.
• Professional Development stipends for security certifications, conferences like Black Hat or AWS re:Inforce.
• Unlimited PTO, parental leave, 401k matching equivalent.

Hybrid Paris office fosters creativity and relationships in Datadog's vibrant culture.

Why Join Datadog?

Datadog is the leading cloud monitoring and security platform, trusted by 20,000+ organizations for observability, APM, logs, and SIEM. As Engineering Manager in Security Incident Response, you'll impact global scale: triaging threats in real-time with Datadog Cloud SIEM, automating responses, and learning from incidents to prevent outages. Work with DevOps, SRE, and security pros on distributed systems resilience. Paris EMEA hub offers hybrid flexibility, international teams, and growth in a public company. Build tools that secure cloud apps, contribute to open-source postmortems, and champion blameless culture. Datadog invests in people—diverse, inclusive, with OKRs driving velocity. Join to lead security innovation at the intersection of observability and threat hunting.

Expand your career in cloud security careers at Datadog, leveraging skills in incident response, SIEM, and engineering management. Our Resilience Engineering team partners cross-functionally, from product to infra, ensuring Datadog stays ahead of threats. With strong technical baseline and leadership, you'll mentor seniors, optimize processes, and measure success. Paris location taps into Europe's tech hub, with travel opportunities and global impact. Datadog's hybrid model balances office energy with remote harmony—perfect for security leaders passionate about resilience.

How to Apply

Ready to lead Security Incident Response at Datadog? Apply now for this Paris Engineering Manager role. Submit your resume highlighting incident response experience, leadership, and Datadog/SIEM familiarity. We'll review promptly—interviews include technical discussions, leadership scenarios, and team fit. Datadog is equal opportunity; we encourage applicants from all backgrounds. Shape the future of cloud security observability—apply today!