Network Engineer, Datacenter

Introduction

Our Network teams have a maniacal focus on delivering world class network infrastructure by way of top notch automation on top of modern architectural and design concepts.   Our goal is to build the most resilient, high performance network fabrics possible to accelerate our unique, and bleeding edge AI, ML, and VFX workloads for our customers, but also have fun doing it! 

Your Role and Responsibilities

We build world class layer 3 Clos fabrics, that support the most demanding AI/ML and VFX workloads. Wait…we said that above…lets talk about you, and how you’ll be doing that! 
As our next amazing Network Engineer and purveyor of fine packets, you will be a critical part of a small team of highly motivated, and incredibly talented network engineers. Your day to day will include deploying datacenter fabrics at incredible scale, operationalizing deployed datacenters, learning new skills, leveraging automation frameworks developed by our NetDev’s to achieve the impossible, or at least the really really hard, for sure! But most importantly, you’ll be part of a super dynamic team with amazing skill sets, attitudes, and outlooks, and all with a company behind an industry movement that the general IaaS and Cloud industry hasn’t seen the likes of since the early days of hyperscale cloud. 

Qualifications

3+ Years of a little of this, a little of that, and a nice sprinkling of….

• A great attitude, and a willingness to help those more junior, and learn from those more senior.
• Absorption of new and innovative design concepts like a sponge
• Mellanox, Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco etc... 
• Experience with Datacenter routing protocols - BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, OSPF, ISIS
• Python & Shell Scripting (+10 Points for a passion in for loop engineering!)
• Netbox, Nautobot, or general interaction with a database style source of truth for infra
• Working knowledge of how to use Github
• Understanding of TCP/IP.
• Must be willing to learn how to use Automation Frameworks. You don’t have to write all the code, but you need to learn how to consume it!
• Observability & Telemetry concepts - gNMI, SNMP via Prometheus etc..
• Participation in the Network Engineering On-Call rotation
• Linux Operating System experience

Nice-to-haves:

• 3+ years experience directly or indirectly helping deploy & manage network infrastructure
• Direct or Indirect experience working with Service Provider networks
• +10 points for having used some Ansible + Jinja to provision network infrastructure!
• -10 points for a commit direct to main

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $180,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.