# Technical Program Manager - IP Backbone **Company**: Nebius **Location**: Remote - Europe **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $180,000-$230,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nebius/jobs/5026517101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/technical-program-manager-ip-backbone-3462620a-583/ ## Description ## Job Description The IP Backbone TPM coordinates the planning and delivery of Nebius’s global IP backbone and Internet edge. ### Responsibilities #### Site and PoP Readiness - Coordinate IP connectivity due diligence for new data center and PoP locations. - Confirm the planned site role in the backbone and the required connectivity to regional and Super PoPs. - Track site dependencies such as rack space, power, security, cross-connects, cabling, hardware delivery, and carrier access. - Coordinate PoP build plans with IP Engineering, Layer 1 Planning, Data Center Operations, Security, and Procurement. - Identify the boundary between IP and Layer 1 work early, including transport handoffs, demarcation points, and ownership of cross-connects. - Confirm that IP equipment and provider services are ready for installation, testing, and operational handover. #### IP Connectivity Planning - Coordinate plans for IP transit, peering, private interconnects, and backbone connectivity in line with the global network strategy. - Track provider requirements, site availability, port capacity, cross-connects, delivery dates, commercial terms, and technical acceptance criteria. - Work with Procurement and network architects to gather and review ISP information using the provider qualification checklist. - Plan connectivity for new data center launches, including the required paths from the front-end fabric to the Nebius backbone, transit providers, cloud on-ramps, and peering locations as applicable. - Maintain an integrated view of circuit, port, router, optics, and cross-connect dependencies so that a delivered service can be activated end to end. - Coordinate capacity growth and diverse connectivity plans before demand or a new launch creates a service constraint. #### Internet Routing Resources and Security - Coordinate the lifecycle and accurate records for Nebius IPv4 and IPv6 address allocations, assignments, and utilization. - Maintain an operational view of ASN use and dependencies across regions, PoPs, transit providers, peers, and customer-facing services. - Coordinate the creation, review, and maintenance of AS-SETs, route objects, and ROAs with the responsible technical owners and relevant registries. - Track RPKI and IRR readiness as part of provider onboarding, routing changes, and new-site launches. - Coordinate remediation of resource or routing-security issues with Network Engineering and external providers. #### Backbone Hardware and Supply - Maintain a forward-looking view of IP backbone hardware demand based on PoP builds, data center launches, capacity plans, and approved architecture. - Coordinate hardware planning and delivery for routers, line cards, optics, spares, software entitlements, and related components. - Standard platforms are Juniper MX304 routers for peering borders, Juniper PTX10002 routers for data center borders, and Cisco 8000 Series routers for Cloud Interconnect (CIC) and cloud on-ramps. - Work with IP Engineering to translate approved designs into complete, validated bills of materials and deployment requirements. - Track forecasts, purchase requests, supplier commitments, lead times, delivery allocations, and regional logistics with Network Supply and Procurement. - Coordinate supply for PoP out-of-band equipment, console access, and PoP management networks. - Identify supply risks early and coordinate mitigation options with technical owners, procurement, and project stakeholders. - Keep project schedules aligned with hardware readiness, site readiness, and service activation milestones. #### Delivery and Launch Coordination - Build and maintain integrated delivery plans for IP backbone projects, PoP builds, provider services, and data center launches. - Coordinate work across IP Architecture, IP Engineering, Layer 1 Planning, Data Center Operations, Construction, Security, Procurement, and providers. - Define milestones, prerequisites, owners, acceptance criteria, and handover requirements for each workstream. - Drive resolution of blockers and escalate risks that could affect site launch, customer commitments, capacity, or network resilience. - Coordinate testing, service activation, routing turn-up, documentation, and operational handover with the engineering and operations teams. - Maintain clear status reporting for project scope, schedule, dependencies, decisions, risks, and actions. #### Operations and Capacity Management - Track IP backbone and Internet edge capacity against forecast demand, data center growth, customer requirements, and platform launches. - Coordinate port, router, transit, peering, address-resource, and hardware expansion before capacity constraints affect service readiness. - Maintain accurate records of PoPs, providers, circuits, ports, ASNs, address allocations, AS-SETs, ROAs, and deployment status in the agreed systems of record. - Support incident follow-up and provider escalations when delivery or service issues affect backbone availability. - Review completed projects with technical and operations teams, capture lessons learned, and improve planning and handover processes. - Support ongoing improvements to resiliency, routing security, provider diversity, and operational readiness. ### Working Boundaries with Layer 1 Planning IP and Layer 1 TPMs share delivery responsibility for PoP and data center connectivity projects. ### Internal Operating Context The IP backbone TPM works with product and infrastructure stakeholders to translate Nebius Cloud launches and requirements into deliverable connectivity plans. ### Security Project Coordination The TPM may coordinate IP security and DDoS-related projects that affect the backbone or Internet edge. ### Key Collaborators - IP / Backbone Architecture - IP Engineering - Front End Fabric Deploy Team - Layer 1 Planning / DWDM Engineering - Network Supply and Procurement - Data Center Operations and Construction - Product and customer teams - Security Architects - ISPs, peers, exchanges, and cloud providers ## Benefits & Perks - Competitive compensation - Career growth and learning opportunities - Flexibility and ownership - Collaborative and innovative culture - Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects - International environment and talented teams ## Pay Transparency - Base Compensation Range: $180,000-$230,000 USD For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Juniper MX304 - Juniper PTX10002 - Cisco 8000 Series - IP transit - peering - private interconnects - backbone connectivity - IPv4 - IPv6 - ASN - AS-SETs - route objects - ROAs - RPKI - IRR --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nebius/jobs/5026517101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)