Manager I Engineering - Platform Trust & Safety

User safety and platform integrity is critical to our business. Our customer’s success is our success. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager 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 lead a team charged with protecting 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 from threat detection security research engineering incident response data science user engagement privacy and bridging gaps between security and the broader Datadog business. You will bring expertise in a few of these areas.

You’ll manage 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 work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Guide and mentor a team of 4+ security and software engineers emphasizing career development inclusivity and high performance.

• Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with your team product management and other engineering teams to align our work with company-wide security objectives.

• Take a pragmatic risk-based approach to complex technical problems and work with your team to produce well-defined and actionable plans.

• Balance your time between management and hands-on technical work.

• Participate in Datadog’s incident response efforts.

• Have a direct impact on users and the overall trust of our platform.
  

Who You Are:

• Experienced managing an engineering team distributed across multiple timezones.

• Fluent in one or more modern coding languages (Python Go JavaScript etc.).

• Familiar with product workflows and building security into the user experience.

• An excellent communicator and collaborator able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in a fast paced high growth environment and able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re 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 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+

• 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.

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What We Do

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation cloud migration and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers for engineers Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together we champion professional development diversity of thought innovation and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative pragmatic and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems take smart risks and celebrate one another.

Why Work With Us

At Datadog we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems innovate pragmatically and grow together. We promote from within provide mentorship and opportunities for career development and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.

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