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Senior Network Engineer, Office Technology

Datadog· Office Technology
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New York, NY$145k - $195kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior-level network engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and operating Datadog’s multi-site office network infrastructure, with technical leadership, automation, and cross-functional collaboration to maintain reliable, secure connectivity across global offices.

Responsibilities

  • 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, documenting goals, constraints, alternatives, decisions, risks, validation, rollout, and rollback
  • Build production readiness into network changes through 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 testing, peer review, drift detection, staged rollout, and safe rollback
  • Own 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, ensure follow-up work addresses systemic causes
  • Evaluate technology and vendor options and make pragmatic recommendations grounded in operability, security, scalability, and business impact
  • Partner with Security, IT Support, Endpoints, AV, Workplace, Construction, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors on cross-functional initiatives
  • Mentor other engineers, delegate effectively, improve team standards and documentation, and raise the quality of design and operational practices
  • Participate in operational support, incident response, and planned maintenance activities as appropriate for the team

Qualifications

  • 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
  • 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
  • Responsible in your use of AI-assisted engineering tools: you protect sensitive data, validate outputs, and know when deterministic automation is the safer choice

Skills

Required:TCP/IPRoutingSwitchingWirelessFirewallsAutomationIncident responseCommunication
Nice to have:Mentoring

Benefits

  • competitive salary and equity package
  • variable compensation
  • healthcare
  • dental
  • parental planning
  • mental health benefits
  • 401(k) plan and match
  • paid time off
  • fitness reimbursements
  • discounted employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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