# Network Engineer - Backbone

**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/4950962007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a5cc3d33-dca

## Description

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- MPLS RSVP TE++
- BGP
- IS-IS
- Python
- Ansible
- Juniper
- Cisco
- Arista
- AWS
- GCP
- OCI
- Cloud VPCs