Staff Engineer – Cloud Networks & Multi-Cloud Connectivity

Datadog

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 244,000 - 305,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Datadog’s Cloud Networks team designs, builds, and maintains the production network infrastructure that powers our multi-region, multi-cloud platform across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond. You’ll set technical direction to scale our network footprint while ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes owning connectivity, cross-team collaboration across time zones, incident response, and optimizing data center expansion.

Qualifications

Deep understanding of BGP, route policies, path selection, and prefix advertisement in large-scale networks.
Experience designing, building, and evolving Software-Defined Networks across interconnected environments.
Willingness to build software and operate networks with code as a primary tool.

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.