# Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Apply by: 2026-11-30
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8292699/?gh_jid=8292699&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-senior-security-engineer-platform-trust-and-safety/

## 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

Tags: Security

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-senior-security-engineer-platform-trust-and-safety/