Datadog
Senior Network Engineer, Office Technology
New York, New York, USA · Senior
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About the role
- This is a senior level role that combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership.
- You will shape team roadmap proposals and technical decisions through evidence and clear tradeoffs, while remaining accountable for reliable delivery and day-to-day operability.
Responsibilities
- Design resilient, scalable solutions across LAN, Wi-Fi, routing, switching, and office firewalls, with explicit failure domains, capacity assumptions, security controls, and migration paths
- Author RFCs and lead design reviews, clearly documenting goals, constraints, alternatives, decisions, risks, validation, rollout, and rollback
- Build production readiness into network changes through meaningful service objectives, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning, failure testing, and operational handoff
- Design reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, policy, compliance, telemetry, and change validation, with appropriate testing, peer review, drift detection, staged rollout, and safe rollback
- Lead difficult incidents and root-cause investigations, communicate clearly during high-impact events, and ensure follow-up work addresses systemic causes
- Partner closely with Security, IT Support, Endpoints, AV, Workplace, Construction, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors on cross-functional initiatives
- Mentor other engineers, delegate effectively, improve team standards and documentation, and raise the quality of design and operational practices
- Participate in operational support, incident response, and planned maintenance activities as appropriate for the team
Requirements
- A deeply experienced, hands-on network engineer with strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, wireless, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and enterprise network security
- Experience with Datadog or other observability platforms, including network device monitoring, flow analytics, synthetic testing, and service-level reporting
- 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 in a rapidly scaling organization
- To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
- to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Compensation
- $145,000 - $195,000 USD
Benefits
- Own, alongside other senior engineers and leadership, the health and lifecycle of major network services, using data to improve reliability, coverage, performance, security, supportability, and cost
Company info
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government
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