Datum

Developer Relations

• Own the developer experience for our platform
• Manage releases and balance priorities
• Advocate for documentation and community engagement
• Build trust with users and customers
• Approach problems through Datum APIs and drive community collaboration

Senior Engineer – Developer Experience

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, implement and run Datum's core backbone, AS 33438, and internet edge (BGP, anycast), with security and reliability as first principles.
• Drive complete visibility into all aspects of our network, including public facing edge, backbone and peering/interconnection.
• Partner with leadership and data plane team to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Build cross-provider connectivity through our partners and hyperscalers.
• Approach problems through the lens of Datum APIs. We give network superpowers to the AI developer.
• Scale yourself and the team through effective automation. We write code to implement ergonomic interfaces and eliminate toil – for us and our customers.
• Improve efficiency and processes along the way.

Lead Engineer – Global Network

• Design, implement, and run Datum's core orchestration stack
• Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
• Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of our edge locations
• Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
• Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
• Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
• Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
• Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
• Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
• Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
• Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
• Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
• Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
• Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
• Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization
• Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Senior Engineer – Orchestration

• Design, implement, and run Datum's core authentication and authorization stack
• Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
• Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of every actor in our system, human or not
• Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
• Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
• Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
• Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
• Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
• Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
• Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
• Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
• Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
• Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
• Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
• Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization
• Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Senior Engineer – Auth

• Own the developer experience for our platform, from the browser to the command line to the IDE.
• Use your high standard of taste and judgment for when to lean in, and when to break the mold.
• Keep pace for our team by managing our releases, working across the organization to balance priorities with capacity.
• Lead our investments in documentation, and be an active advocate and communicator.
• Partner to help us build trust with users and customers, from uptime to security.
• Work with users, “alt cloud” customers, and partners to maximize dopamine and minimize friction.
• Approach problems through the lens of Datum APIs.
• Work in the open and drive community engagement.
• Lean into open source - we make money through our network, not our software.
• Scale yourself and the team through effective automation.
• Play an active role in the community, from meetups to blog posts and demos.
• Drive your roadmap by modeling Datum’s values every day.
• Distill customer needs into clear problem statements that align priorities.
• Use maximum creativity to solve hard problems, balancing tradeoffs.
• Shepherd the team through timely decision-making.
• Improve efficiency and processes along the way.

Lead Engineer – Developer Experience

• Architect, build, and run the core networking features for Datum Cloud
• Design and implement Datum's core networking stack and connectivity fabric
• Build software-defined networking solutions for multi-cloud and edge environments
• Build high-performance routing, switching, and traffic management systems
• Architect network protocols/APIs for seamless workload distribution across providers
• Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover mechanisms
• Build network observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
• Optimize network performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications
• Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
• Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
• Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
• Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
• Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI-forward companies.
• Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments.
• Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization.
• Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Senior Engineer – Network Software

• Build and run the network-optimized Datum compute platform
• Obsess with the customer experience, foundational security and performance of the service
• Drive excellence in infrastructure engineering, across software development and platform operations
• Partner with the infra and network teams to integrate compute seamlessly into the Datum experience and own the long-term health of our infrastructure
• Leverage vendor relationships, primarily open source, to extend our reach and velocity
• Approach problems through the lens of Datum APIs
• Show up with passion for current user personas and help define and build for the future ones too
• Work in the open and drive community engagement
• Lean into open source - we make money through our network, not our software
• Scale yourself and the team through effective automation
• Play an active role in the community, from meetups and speaking to blog posts and demos
• Drive your roadmap by modeling Datum’s values every day
• Distill customer needs into clear problem statements that align priorities
• Use maximum creativity to solve hard problems, balancing the tradeoffs
• Shepherd the team through timely decision-making
• Improve efficiency and processes along the way