About the company
Datadog’s Cloud Networks team designs, builds, and maintains the production network infrastructure that powers everything built on top of our platform across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond. In this role, you’ll set technical direction for how we scale our multi-region, multi-cloud network footprint while keeping reliability and performance high.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds in a multi-region environment.
- Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers—ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable network paths.
- Set clear technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability and performance.
- Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support Datadog’s growing platform needs.
- Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures – from pcap and path analysis through to escalations with cloud providers that may originate from customer support.
- Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities that positively impact business health.
Requirements
- You have deep networking expertise. You understand BGP, route policies, path selection, prefix advertisement, and what breaks in large-scale networking.
- You have substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks—including interconnected environments.
- You enjoy building software and reach for code as the default way to operate a network—performing as a strong developer in a networking-heavy domain.
- You’re comfortable owning ambiguous problems, setting direction, and driving cross-team collaboration—especially with teams distributed across time zones.
- You bring practical experience operating production infrastructure and responding to incidents (including participating in on-call ownership where applicable).
Conditions
- Generous and competitive benefits package.
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding.
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program.
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.