Director Security Engineering - Trust Safety
Director Security Engineering - Trust Safety
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Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Director of Security Engineering who will oversee Trust & Safety at Datadog. Trust & Safety at Datadog includes teams and processes that handle highrisk escalations/incident management user policy legal requests product trust platform abuse and a focus on internal trust and use of our platform.
This role is critical in maintaining trust within a platform or organization while balancing security legal and ethical considerations.
You will collaborate across Product Engineering Compliance and IT teams to integrate security into every stage of the product development lifecycle. Your leadership will be key in making security a foundational aspect of our products reinforcing our commitment to earning and maintaining customer trust. You will lead a high performing team of leaders and their teams who are a mix of software engineers and security engineers.
At Datadog we place value in our office culture the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a worklife harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Define and execute a Trust & Safety roadmap balancing security user experience and business growth.
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure effectiveness in fraud prevention abuse mitigation and compliance.
- Advocate for customer trust by embedding security and safety measures into product development and operational workflows.
- Develop and enforce policies related to fraud abuse content moderation and account security.
- Implement automated and scalable solutions for detecting and responding to threats.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to integrate safety mechanisms into platform features
- Work with Legal and Compliance to address regulatory challenges and industry requirements.
- Assist incident response efforts for trust and safetyrelated crises coordinating with Security PR and Customer Support following a well established Datadog process
- Lead and expand a highperforming Trust & Safety team including software and security engineers
- Establish scalable workflows for reviewing and resolving trust and safety incidents.
- Foster a culture of accountabilityownership datadriven decisionmaking and continuous improvement.
Who You Are:
- Youve been responsible for building and/or rolling out trust organizations
- You have a proven track record of building and scaling security organizations as a Director or higher in highgrowth where you fostered a strong security culture and led teams through rapid change.
- Youve been able to advocate strong security practices by achieving consensus gaining accountability where ownership is unclear.
- You have a demonstrated ability to communicate complex security concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders with outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills that inspire collaboration and drive alignment across teams.
- Youve developed senior engineering leaders and teams who provided critical services for the engineering department.
- Youve developed and hired talent in a group growing senior leaders (both managers and ICs)
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre 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 inhouse networking
- An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
To conform to US export control regulations candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
