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Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety

Datadog· Engineering
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New York, NY$192k - $240k + equityfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer to join Datadog's Platform Trust & Safety team, focusing on proactive, scalable, data-centric security to enable a safe and trustworthy user experience across a growing, highly interactive platform.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Software security engineeringCommunication and collaborationFront-end developmentProgramming languages
Nice to have:Back-end development

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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