Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & SafetyActive$46K–$183K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.