Senior Network Engineer - Office Tech & Automation Lead

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 132,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Parental planning

Mental health benefits

401(k) plan and match

Paid time off

Fitness reimbursements

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for the Office Technology team to own major network services across multi-site deployments, from design through stable operations. You will lead design reviews, drive automation, and mentor juniors while delivering reliable, scalable networking for global offices.

You will design LAN, Wi‑Fi, routing, switching, and office firewalls with clear failure domains, build reusable automation, and collaborate with Security and IT to maintain observability and

Qualifications

• Deep experience in design and operations of enterprise networks.
• Experience across LAN, Wi‑Fi, routing, switching, and security.
• Ability to lead design reviews and complex troubleshooting with data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design resilient, scalable LAN, Wi‑Fi, routing, switching and firewall solutions with clear failure domains and security controls.
• Lead RFCs, document goals, constraints, and decisions, plus risk assessment and rollout plans.
• Incorporate production readiness into changes with monitoring, runbooks, and capacity planning.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, policy, telemetry, validation, and safe rollback.
• Own major network services lifecycle and drive reliability, coverage, and cost improvements.
• Lead incidents and root-cause analyses with clear communication and follow-up actions.
• Evaluate technology options and provide pragmatic recommendations with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Security, IT Support, Endpoints, and other teams on cross‑functional initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and improve team standards, documentation, and design quality.
• Participate in operational support, incident response, and planned maintenance as needed.

Skills

TCP/IP

Routing

Switching

VLANs

Wireless

DNS

DHCP

Firewalls

Enterprise network security

Troubleshooting

Tools

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Network automation frameworks

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for the Office Technology team to own major network services across multi-site deployments, from design through stable operations. You will lead design reviews, drive automation, and mentor juniors while delivering reliable, scalable networking for global offices.

You will design LAN, Wi‑Fi, routing, switching, and office firewalls with clear failure domains, build reusable automation, and collaborate with Security and IT to maintain observability and