Senior Platform Trust & Safety Engineer

Showcify, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to drive a proactive, data-centric approach for user safety and platform integrity. You will mentor engineers, build security features across frontend and backend, and collaborate with product teams to align with company security objectives.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software security experience, strong communication, and fluency in Python, Go, or TypeScript.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software security engineering experience.
• Experience building platform and user security features.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with product/design teams for frontend features.
• Fluent in Python, Go, or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Have a direct impact on customers and their trust in the platform.
• Drive the technical security roadmap with cross-functional teams.
• Mentor 3+ software and security engineers.
• Develop user-friendly UI components for security features.
• Create metrics to understand user interactions with security controls.
• Contribute to both frontend and backend security work across the stack.
• Develop risk scoring algorithms for potentially risky activity.
• Collaborate with engineering teams beyond security.
• Support threat detection and incident response efforts.

Skills

5+ years of software security

Front-end security

Back-end security

Excellent communication

Collaborative work

Python

Go

TypeScript

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to drive a proactive, data-centric approach for user safety and platform integrity. You will mentor engineers, build security features across frontend and backend, and collaborate with product teams to align with company security objectives.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software security experience, strong communication, and fluency in Python, Go, or TypeScript.