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# Staff Engineer - Cloud Networks

- **Company:** CLOUD RIDER NETWORKS, INC.
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $244,000.0 - $305,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Network Architecture, Software Construction, Datadog
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/staff-engineer-cloud-networks/10666937

## About the Role

* You have deep networking expertise. You understand BGP, route policies, path selection, prefix advertisement, and what breaks in large-scale networking.
 * You have substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks-including interconnected environments.
 * You enjoy building software and reach for code as the default way to operate a network-performing as a strong developer in a networking-heavy domain.
 * You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems, setting direction, and driving cross-team collaboration-especially with teams distributed across time zones.
 * You bring practical experience operating production infrastructure and responding to incidents (including participating in on-call ownership where applicable).

## Description

* Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds in a multi-region environment.
 * Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers-ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable network paths.
 * Set clear technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability and performance.
 * Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support Datadog's growing platform needs.
 * Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures - from pcap and path analysis through to escalations with cloud providers that may originate from customer support
 * Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities that positively impact business health.


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