Security Engineer - Trust Safety Team

User safety and platform integrity is critical to our business. Our customers success is our success. Were looking for a Security Engineer to join us in taking a proactive highly scalable and datacentric approach to enabling a safe and trustworthy experience for the users of our rapidly growing and increasingly interactive platform. Youll 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.

Youll join a growing security team at an ideal time for making a big impact. 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 worklife harmony that best fits them.

What Youll Do:

• Identify potentially unwanted behavior and patterns of abuse on the platform and take steps to moderate and restrict this behavior.
• Fight against threats to user safety (such as account takeover publicly leaked tokens privileged access abuse fraud etc).
• Build and implement near realtime detection and prevention capabilities that protect our platform and our customers.
• Build tooling to detect and prevent risks to user data.
• Work in a highly collaborative role often engaging with engineering teams beyond security.
• Research and monitoring emerging abuse trends techniques tactics and procedures.
• Craft novel security detection rules and alerts and create associated incident response runbooks and tools.
• Have a direct impact on users and the overall trust of our platform.
• Participate in Datadogs incident response efforts.
  
  

Who You Are:

• Have 2 years of security or software engineering experience especially on teams building platform and user security features.
• Experienced working with data for risk analysis threat detection anomaly detection or monitoring purposes.
• Fluent in one or more modern coding languages (Go Python JavaScript etc..
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively on a distributed team.
• 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. 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.