The opportunity
Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient.
What you'll do
Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear: expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a: roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS: enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults,: clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production: rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to: align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.
What they're looking for
- You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
- You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have: experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
- You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in: building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
- You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful: approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
