Staff Engineer - Cloud Networks

About the role

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.

You'll partner closely with internal teams and Cloud Service Providers to troubleshoot complex connectivity issues, integrate new networking capabilities, and improve the foundations our engineers and customers rely on. This is a high-impact opportunity to drive meaningful improvements in scale, resiliency, and cost efficiency.

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

• 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.

Who You Are

• 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).

Additional information

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

• 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

• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
• #LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is

$244,000—$305,000 USD