Security Engineer - Trust & Safety Team

User safety and platform integrity is critical to our business. Our customer’s success is our success. We’re looking for a 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. The product is seeing very high growth, with the platform becoming more interactive and new products and features developed regularly. What You’ll 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 real-time 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. 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. 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. 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). Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions. Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6. Equal Opportunity at Datadog: Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. J-18808-Ljbffr

Location: mallabia, ES

Posted Date: 5/13/2025