Senior Product Manager - Network Path

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · New York, NY · Product Management

Product Manager for Datadog's Network Path product, focusing on visualizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network traffic in hybrid and cloud environments. The role involves defining strategy, owning the roadmap, exploring data combinations for network health analysis, and building intelligent alerting/root-cause analysis capabilities. While the company positions itself in the 'AI era' and uses AI, this specific role is focused on network infrastructure observability rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the strategy and pioneer new ways to visualize end-to-end network paths. You will determine how we capture, analyze, and map complex routing data to give customers a true hop-by-hop view of their network traffic.
  2. Own the core Network Path roadmap, ensuring deep coverage for cloud-native networking (e.g., AWS VPCs, Transit Gateways), SD-WAN, and traditional on-premise routing topologies.
  3. Explore ways to combine flow data, routing metrics (BGP, OSPF), and synthetic network tests to provide a holistic view of network health and pinpoint the exact node or ISP causing degradation.
  4. Partner with Product Marketing to articulate the business value of network path monitoring, showing customers how improved visibility directly correlates to reduced MTTR and optimized cloud egress costs.
  5. Identify opportunities to build intelligent alerting and root-cause analysis capabilities, working with engineering to surface network bottlenecks, ISP outages, or misconfigured security groups before they impact end-user applications.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience
  • specific exposure to Network Performance Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure, or IT Operations
  • hands-on experience or deep familiarity with cloud networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, VPCs, Load Balancers, CDNs) and traditional networking protocols
  • deep understanding of how network performance impacts user experience and application reliability
  • sharp critical thinking and analytical skills
  • ability to link technical network metrics with business objectives
  • strong communication skills
  • willingness to present your ideas to technical stakeholders (Network Architects) and executives alike
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • passion for technology and want to grow your experience