About the team
The Office Technology team designs, deploys, and operates the network infrastructure that keeps Datadog's global offices connected, secure, and reliable. The team owns routing, switching, wireless, office firewalls, connectivity, and the observability and operational practices needed to provide a dependable employee experience at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design resilient, scalable solutions across LAN, Wi-Fi, routing, switching, and office firewalls
- Author RFCs and lead design reviews
- Build production readiness into network changes through service objectives, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning, failure testing
- Design reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, policy, compliance, telemetry, and change validation
- Own the health and lifecycle of major network services
- Lead difficult incidents and root-cause investigations
- Evaluate technology and vendor options
- Partner closely with Security, IT Support, Endpoints, AV, Workplace, Construction, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors
- Mentor other engineers and improve team standards and documentation
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, wireless, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and enterprise network security
- Experienced designing and operating resilient network infrastructure across distributed offices or campus environments
- Skilled at diagnosing complex issues using packet captures, logs, flow data, dashboards, and vendor telemetry
- Comfortable building maintainable automation using scripting, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, version control, testing, and CI/CD practices
- Strong in production engineering practices, including observability, service objectives, capacity planning, change safety, incident response
- Able to take ambiguous problems from problem statement to durable solution
- Clear, concise communicator
- Thoughtful mentor
Bonus points
- Experience with Datadog or other observability platforms
- Experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git-based workflows, or network automation frameworks
- Experience with network access control, RADIUS or 802.1X, segmentation, VPNs, or identity-aware and zero-trust networking
- Experience delivering global office expansions, infrastructure refreshes, or complex migrations
Conditions
- Competitive salary and equity package, may include variable compensation
- Estimated yearly salary: $132,000 - $165,000 USD
- Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, discounted employee stock purchase plan