- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Work style
- Hybrid
- Area
- Security engineering
At a glance
The role in plain English
This role focuses on safeguarding Datadog's platform and users by developing technical solutions to detect and prevent abuse, risky behaviours, and threats. It suits experienced security engineers with a background in both software development and platform security. The position involves mentoring, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to both front-end and back-end security features. Day-to-day work includes coding, incident response, and developing risk detection algorithms.
What you'll do
- Drive technical security roadmap with product and engineering teams
- Mentor software and security engineers on quality and resiliency
- Develop UI components for user security controls
- Create metrics to analyse security feature usage
- Contribute to threat detection and incident response
What they're looking for
Essential
- 5+ years software security engineering experience
- Experience building platform and user security features
- Fluency in modern coding languages (Python, Go, TypeScript)
- Experience delivering front-end features with product/design teams
- Knowledge of abuse techniques in SaaS applications
Core skills
- Threat detection
- Incident response
- Python
- Go
- TypeScript
- Risk scoring
- UI development
- Metrics analysis
The shape of the job
Technical depth
4/5
Pace
4/5
Ownership
4/5
Teamwork
5/5
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- 01Describe a time you built a security feature for a SaaS platform.
- 02How would you design a risk scoring algorithm for user behaviour?
- 03What approaches do you use to detect and prevent platform abuse?
- 04How do you mentor engineers on security best practices?
About Datadog
Datadog provides an observability and security platform for businesses to monitor applications, infrastructure, and data at scale.
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About Datadog
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.
The Opportunity
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.
You’ll join a growing security team at an ideal time for making a big impact. Datadog is growing rapidly, and AI-assisted development is increasing both the pace of software delivery and the amount of activity generated by AI agents. The product is seeing very high growth, with the platform becoming more interactive and new products and features developed regularly.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
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.
- 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.
Who You Are:
- 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.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$192,000 — $240,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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