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Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · On-site

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About Datadog

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.

About the role

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 increasingly interactive platform. You’ll fight against threats to our users, platform abuse, and other potentially risky and unwanted behaviors on our platform. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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 companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

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 increasingly interactive platform. You’ll fight against threats to our users, platform abuse, and other potentially risky and unwanted behaviors on our platform.

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.

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