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Salary: USD 192,000 - 240,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join its Platform Trust & Safety team in New York. This role focuses on building proactive, scalable, and data-driven approaches to platform security and user safety. You will work to prevent threats, platform abuse, and risky behaviors while ensuring a trustworthy experience for Datadog's rapidly growing user base.
The team spans software engineering, data science, user engagement, privacy, threat detection, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration. You'll bring expertise in several of these areas and help shape the technical roadmap in alignment with company-wide security objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Mentoring a team of 3+ software and security engineers, emphasizing quality, resiliency, and delivery
- Driving technical roadmap in collaboration with product management and other engineering teams
- Developing user-friendly UI components for account security features
- Creating metrics to measure user interaction with security controls
- Implementing full-stack code (front-end and back-end)
- Developing risk-scoring algorithms to classify risky behavior and activity
- Contributing to threat detection, incident response, and security operations
- Working collaboratively across engineering teams beyond security
Datadog operates at massive scale (trillions of data points daily) and serves tens of thousands of companies. The platform is experiencing rapid growth with increasing interactivity and new products launching regularly. AI-assisted development is accelerating software delivery and platform activity.
The company operates as a hybrid workplace and values office culture for collaboration and creativity.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software security engineering experience, particularly on teams building platform and user security features
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work through complex technical problems with diverse stakeholders
- Prior experience working with product and design teams to deliver front-end features
- Fluency in one or more modern coding languages (Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar)
- Comfortable in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Knowledge of abuse techniques in modern SaaS applications
Datadog notes that not all candidates will meet every qualification on day one and encourages passionate technologists to apply.
