Senior Security Engineer, Platform Trust & Safety

Datadog

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $185k
This role $216k
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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$219,131 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer, Platform Trust & Safety

The Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety joins a security team focused on maintaining platform integrity and user safety. This role involves driving the technical roadmap, mentoring a team of over three engineers, and developing user-friendly UI components to strengthen account security. Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing front-end and back-end code, creating metrics to measure security feature interaction, and developing risk scoring algorithms to classify potentially risky behaviors. The candidate must be fluent in modern coding languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript. The work addresses the technical challenge of protecting a rapidly growing, interactive SaaS platform against abuse techniques, threat detection, and incident response while managing the increased activity generated by AI-assisted development and agents.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $193000 from 107 postings across 42 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive the technical roadmap to align security work with company-wide objectives.
  • Mentor a team of 3+ software and security engineers on quality and resiliency.
  • Develop user-friendly UI components to help users strengthen account security.
  • Create metrics to measure how users interact with security features and controls.
  • Implement both front-end and back-end code across the full technology stack.
  • Develop risk scoring algorithms to classify risky behavior on the platform.
  • Contribute to threat detection and security operations efforts.
  • Participate in the company's incident response efforts.

What we're looking for

  • Have 5+ years of software security engineering experience, especially on teams building platform and user security features.
  • Fluent in one or more modern coding languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Prior experience working with product and design teams to deliver front-end features.
  • Knowledgeable of abuse techniques in modern SaaS applications (preferred).
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator able to work through complex technical problems with diverse stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

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