Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
About this role
**Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety** **About Datadog** Datadog is on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. At high scale (trillions of data points per day), we provide always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. **The Opportunity** User safety and platform integrity are critical to our business. You’ll help take a proactive, highly scalable, data-centric approach to enabling a safe and trustworthy experience for users of our rapidly growing, increasingly interactive platform. You’ll fight threats to users, platform abuse, and other potentially risky or unwanted behaviors. **What You’ll Do** - Have a direct impact on customers and their overall trust of our platform. - Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with your team, product management, and other engineering teams to align with company-wide security objectives. - Mentor a team of 3+ software and security engineers, emphasizing engineering quality, resiliency, and delivery. - Develop user-friendly UI components that help users strengthen the security of their account. - Create metrics and measurements to understand how users interact with security features and controls. - Work across the stack, implementing both front-end and back-end code. - Develop risk scoring algorithms to classify potentially risky behavior or activity. - Work in a highly collaborative role, often engaging with engineering teams beyond security. - Contribute to security operations efforts including threat detection and response. - Participate in Datadog’s incident response efforts. **Who You Are** - 5+ years of software security engineering experience, especially on teams building platform and user security features. - Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work through complex technical problems with diverse stakeholders. - Prior experience working with product and design teams to deliver front-end features. - Fluent in one or more modern coding languages (Python, Go, TypeScript, etc.). - Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. - Knowledgeable of abuse techniques in modern SaaS applications. *Datadog values people from all walks of life. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.* **Benefits and Growth** - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program - Inclusive company culture and Community Guilds (employee resource groups) - Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6 *Benefits and growth may vary based on country and employment type.* **Compensation (Estimated)** - **$192,000 — $240,000 USD** (yearly) **About Datadog (Additional Info)** Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. **Equal Opportunity** Datadog is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants regardless of protected characteristics and consistent with legal requirements.
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