Staff Engineer, Cloud Networks

Datadog

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Boston, MADenver, CONew York, NY
Salary
$244,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted
75 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $200k
This role $274k
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $274k versus about $200k 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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Cloud Networks

The 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 scaling multi-region, multi-cloud network footprints while ensuring high reliability and performance. Key responsibilities include owning connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers, improving cross-site connectivity patterns, and leading deep investigations into latency and packet loss using pcap and path analysis. The ideal candidate possesses deep networking expertise in BGP, route policies, path selection, and prefix advertisement. You must have experience evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks and be a strong developer who uses code to operate networks. This role solves complex connectivity issues and drives cost-saving opportunities within a high-scale production environment.

What does a Engineer earn in New York?

Median $200000 from 36 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds.
  • Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers to ensure scalable and secure network paths.
  • Set technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability.
  • Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support growing platform needs.
  • Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures using pcap and path analysis.
  • Escalate complex networking issues to cloud providers as needed.
  • Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities to improve business health.

What we're looking for

  • Deep networking expertise in BGP, route policies, path selection, and prefix advertisement.
  • Substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks.
  • Ability to build software and use code as the default method to operate a network.
  • Practical experience operating production infrastructure and responding to incidents, including on-call ownership.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds.
  • Ability to lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures using pcap and path analysis.
  • Ability to own ambiguous problems and drive cross-team collaboration across distributed time zones.

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