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Senior Application Security Engineer

DataDog

-----How Do I Apply-----

* Send me an email with your resume and GitHub at kh@datadoghq.com

-----What you will do-----

* Perform code and design reviews, contribute code that improves security throughout Datadog's products

* Educate your fellow engineers about security in code and infrastructure

* Monitor production applications for anomalous activity

* Prioritize and track application security issues across the company

* Help improve our security policies and processes

-----Who you should be-----

* You have significant experience with network and application security

* You can navigate the whole stack in pursuit of potential security issues

* You want to work in a fast, high growth startup environment

-----Bonus points-----

* You contribute to security projects

* You're comfortable with python, go and javascript. (You won't find any PHP or Java here :D)

* CTF experience (I recommend you play with OpenToAll if you don't have any)

* Program analysis knowledge

-----Sample interview questions-----

* Flip to a page of WAHH, TAOSSA, CryptoPals, ask you about it.

* Explain these acronyms DEP/ASLR/GS/CFI/AFL/ASAN/LLVM/ROP/COOP/RAP/ECB/CBC/CTR/HPKP/SSL/DNS/IP/HTTP/HMAC/GCM/Z3/SMT/SHA/CSRF/SQLi/DDoS/MAC/DAC/BREACH/CRIME?

* How would you implement TCP using UDP sockets?

* How do you safely store a password? (Hint: scrypt/bcrypt/pbkdf2)

* How do you fake a referer header? (Hint: Flash objects, meta tags etc.)

* What's an open-redirect? (Hint: WAHH)

* How does Let's Encrypt work?

I personally applied because I love Python but I like the company a lot so far.




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