Datadog
Senior Security Engineer - Platform Trust & Safety
New York, New York, USA · Senior
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$1,461 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- User safety and platform integrity is critical to our business.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with your team, product management, and other engineering teams to align our work with company-wide security objectives.
- 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.
- Develop risk scoring algorithms to classify potentially risky behavior or activity on our platform.
- Have 5+ years of software security engineering experience, especially on teams building platform and user security features.
- Prior experience working with product and design teams to deliver front-end features.
Requirements
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Compensation
- $192,000 - $240,000 USD
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Company info
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Have a direct impact on customers and their overall trust of our platform.
- We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- t opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics
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