Network Engineer II

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Network Engineer II, you will play a critical role in implementing and supporting office network solutions across Datadog's global offices. You will be responsible for owning well-scoped deployment and upgrade work, troubleshooting connectivity issues, and partnering with senior engineers on larger designs and cross-office initiatives. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Network Engineer II, your key responsibilities will include: - Deploying and configuring network solutions for new and existing offices, including switches, wireless access points, routers, and firewalls - Owning scoped portions of office rollouts and upgrade projects, from planning through execution and validation - Partnering with ISPs, cabling providers, hardware vendors, and internal teams to turn up new services and resolve issues - Troubleshooting LAN, WAN, and Wi-Fi issues using structured debugging methods, packet capture, logs, and performance data - Managing routing, VLAN, firewall, and wireless configurations following team standards and change-management processes - Contributing to repeatable deployment patterns through templates, documentation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code - Monitoring office network health using Datadog dashboards and other tooling, and participating in incident response and post-incident reviews - Maintaining clear documentation for designs, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational workflows - Collaborating with and providing network guidance to Office Technology Administrators, IT Support, Facilities, AV, Security, and Infrastructure partners - Helping maintain office network standards, hardware lifecycle plans, and operational consistency across global sites - Applying AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to reduce operational toil, improve runbooks, summarize incidents or investigations, and make network operations more repeatable and observable WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - Grounding in networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DHCP/DNS, and wireless concepts - Experience working hands-on with enterprise network equipment such as switches, access points, routers, and firewalls - Comfort executing production changes, validating outcomes, and escalating when risk or ambiguity increases - Ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues using logs, packet captures, monitoring data, and clear hypotheses - Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and interested in improving runbooks, documentation, and operational processes - Clear communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners across offices and time zones - Excitement to grow your depth in network engineering, observability, automation, and secure office connectivity - AI-fluency in your day-to-day work, using AI-assisted tools to learn, troubleshoot, document, and automate, while validating outputs and protecting sensitive information WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, allowing employees to create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role will be performed remotely, with opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across offices and time zones. BENEFITS Datadog offers a range of benefits to support your growth and well-being, including: - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Intradep