The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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
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
Lead difficult incidents and root-cause investigations, communicate clearly: during high-impact events, and ensure follow-up work addresses systemic causes
What they're looking for
- A deeply experienced, hands-on network engineer with strong knowledge of: TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, wireless, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and enterprise network security
- Experienced designing and operating resilient network infrastructure across: distributed offices or campus environments
- Skilled at diagnosing complex issues using packet captures, logs, flow data,: dashboards, and vendor telemetry, and at reasoning from protocols and failure modes
- Comfortable building maintainable automation using scripting, APIs,: infrastructure-as-code, version control, testing, and CI/CD practices
- Strong in production engineering practices, including observability, service: objectives, capacity planning, change safety, incident response, and post-incident improvement
- Able to take ambiguous problems from problem statement to durable solution,: balancing reliability, security, user experience, cost, and delivery speed
- A clear, concise communicator who can lead technical discussions, explain: tradeoffs, and build alignment with technical and non-technical partners
- A thoughtful mentor who raises the quality of others’ work without becoming a: bottleneck or creating unnecessary process
