# Network Engineer - Edge

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4950947007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_509502c4-bc6

## Description

## About the Role

Grok and X are powered largely from our own on-premise infrastructure which enables us to move at speed and efficiency when deploying vast amounts of capacity. People wouldn’t be able to enjoy participating in the townhall on X or use Grok to understand the universe if it weren’t for our Edge networking infrastructure.

## Responsibilities

- Architect, develop, and maintain peering and transit infrastructure, including routing policies, eDNS, cloud connectivity, CGNAT, and load balancer fleets.

- Leverage Python scripting to automate repetitive engineering tasks and proactively mitigate customer impacts.

- Manage and troubleshoot DNS infrastructure to ensure reliable performance.

- Oversee and resolve issues related to cloud VPCs and connected network hardware.

- Diagnose and resolve complex TCP/IP issues to maintain seamless network operations.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure efficiency and support xAI’s AI platforms.

## Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience with edge network hardware, including load balancers, CGNAT, routers, and switches.

- 7+ years of routing experience in backbones, peering, and transit areas with expertise in traffic engineering.

- 5+ years of experience using Python scripting to automate deployments and break/fix tasks.

- 3+ years of experience managing DNS infrastructure.

- 3+ years of experience managing and troubleshooting cloud VPCs and connected network hardware.

- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex TCP/IP issues.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with A10 Networks, NGINX, or open-source load balancer/CGNAT software.

- Familiarity with Route53 and UltraDNS.

- Expertise in GCP, AWS, and OCI VPC architecture and troubleshooting.

- Knowledge of Kubernetes Ingress.

- Experience with CDN, Fastly, and Cloudfront.

- Demonstrated success in on-call rotations and incident response in high-stakes environments.

- Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in a fast-paced, ambiguous setting.

## Annual Base Salary

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

## Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at X, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- edge network hardware
- load balancers
- CGNAT
- routers
- switches
- routing
- traffic engineering
- Python scripting
- DNS infrastructure
- cloud VPCs
- TCP/IP

### Nice to have
- A10 Networks
- NGINX
- Route53
- UltraDNS
- GCP
- AWS
- OCI
- Kubernetes Ingress
- CDN
- Fastly
- Cloudfront