Staff Engineer, Cloud Networks

Datadog

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Salary
$244,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $195k
This role $274k
$142k most similar roles pay here $322k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $162,862–$227,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $274k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Cloud Networks

Staff Engineer - Cloud Networks joins the Cloud Networks team to design, build, and maintain production network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds. This role involves setting technical direction for multi-region, multi-cloud network footprints while ensuring high reliability and performance. You will manage connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers, while investigating complex issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures through pcap and path analysis. The position requires deep expertise in BGP, route policies, path selection, and prefix advertisement to manage large-scale Software-Defined Networks. As a strong developer in a networking-heavy domain, you will use code as the primary method to operate infrastructure. You will solve critical problems regarding scale, resiliency, and cost efficiency while collaborating with internal teams and cloud providers to improve foundational network capabilities for the platform.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate multi-region cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds.
  • Manage secure and reliable connectivity between clouds, customers, and internal developers.
  • Set technical direction for expanding data centers while maintaining network stability and performance.
  • Optimize cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support platform growth.
  • Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures using pcap and path analysis.
  • Escalate complex networking issues with cloud providers to resolve customer-facing problems.
  • Identify and implement network infrastructure improvements to increase cost efficiency.

What we're looking for

  • You must have deep networking expertise including BGP, route policies, path selection, prefix advertisement, and large-scale network troubleshooting.
  • You must have substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks in interconnected environments.
  • You must be a strong developer who uses code as the primary method to operate networks.
  • You must have practical experience operating production infrastructure and responding to incidents.
  • You must be able to lead investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures using pcap and path analysis.
  • You must be comfortable owning ambiguous problems and driving collaboration across distributed teams.

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