Network Engineer - Backbone

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced engineer to design, develop, deploy and operate our global backbone infrastructure. This role requires a deep understanding of backbone network hardware and protocols, including MPLS RSVP TE++. The successful candidate will partner with internal teams to ensure our current products meet their future needs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and operate our global backbone infrastructure
• Partner with internal teams to ensure our current products meet their future needs
• Leverage our own systems for insights to inform development decisions
• Automate customer impact mitigations using Python and Ansible

Requirements

• 10+ years working on backbone network hardware and their protocols (MPLS RSVP TE++) in a large/hyper scale environment
• 10+ years of routing experience (BGP, IS-IS) within backbones, peering and transit areas with deep skills in traffic engineering
• 5+ years experience with Python scripting and the ability to automate repetitive tasks for deployments and break/fix
• 5+ years experience managing and troubleshooting cloud VPCs and connected network hardware
• Experience with Juniper, Cisco and Arista hardware
• Experience with AWS, GCP and OCI clouds
• Experience capacity planning on large networks with minimal customer input
• Proven track record in on-call rotations and incident response in high-stakes environments

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.

Annual Base Salary

$180,000 - $440,000 USD