Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at a high scale - trillions of data points per day — providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companie...

User safety and platform integrity is critical to our business. Our customer’s success is our success. We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join us in taking a proactive, highly scalable, and data-centric approach to enabling a safe and trustworthy experience for the users of our rapidly growing and incre...

Our team covers a broad range of trust and safety related topics including software engineering, data science, user engagement, privacy, threat detection, incident response, and bridging gaps between security and the broader Datadog business. You will bring expertise in a few of these areas.

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 our work 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 enable users to strengthen the security of their account.
Create metrics and measurements to better understand how users are interacting with our security-related features and controls.
Have an opportunity to work across the stack, implementing both front-end and back-end code.
Develop risk scoring algorithms to classify potentially risky behavior or activity on our platform.
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.

 

Have 5+ years of software security engineering experience, especially on teams building platform and user security features.
An excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of 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. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.