Senior On-Premise Network Engineer

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 375 million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

SoundCloud is looking for a Senior On-Premise Network Engineer to join our Systraf team.  As a Senior On-Premise Network Engineer, you will be at our forefront of designing, managing, and maintaining our hybrid network infrastructure. You'll use your expertise in multi-region network topology, routing, and hybrid cloud architectures to optimize performance and reliability.

You’ll collaborate closely with infrastructure and engineering teams across multiple time zones to automate and manage our infrastructure through tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash. Your work will extend to bare-metal servers, switches, routers, and metal-as-a-service systems within our data centers. You will also manage critical services like IP address management (IPAM) for automation and network efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain multi-region hybrid network infrastructures across on-premise, AWS, and GCP environments, ensuring high availability and efficient performance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Go, and Bash, enhancing efficiency and consistency across network operations.
• Analyze network topology, routing, and performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, implementing solutions to improve overall system reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate network solutions across diverse environments, maintaining alignment and consistency with organizational goals.
• Maintain and enhance network services and security in AWS (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53) and on-premise systems, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable connectivity solutions.

Experience and Background:

• 5+ years of experience in network engineering, including designing, implementing, and managing hybrid network infrastructures across on-premise, AWS, and GCP environments.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, with emphasis on Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash
• Experience with bare-metal servers, switches and routers, metal-as-a-service systems, data center environments, and configuration management frameworks.
• Familiarity with IPAM for automation and effective network management.
• Skilled in Linux systems, managing software load balancers and reverse proxies such as HAProxy or Envoy.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team distributed across multiple time zones.
• Preparedness for participation in an on-call rotation schedule.
• Familiar with AWS network services like Virtual Private Cloud, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, WAF/Shield, and CloudFront

About us

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits

• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.