Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security
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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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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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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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