Network Engineer
Beam · San Francisco, CA · 6 days ago
HybridInformation TechnologyFull-time
Deploy and validate data center network infrastructure
- Configure switches
- Install and validate optics
- Coordinate cabling
- Drive deployments to completion
Ensure physical connectivity meets production standards
- Coordinate fiber remediation
- Validate insertion loss and OTDR traces
- Troubleshoot optical-layer issues
- Document as-builts
Manage hardware logistics
- Device staging
- Rack/stack coordination
- RMA
- DCIM updates
- Inventory
- Vendor shipments
Partner with DC Operations, ICT, Hardware, and Network Engineering
- Identify blockers early
- Escalate decisively
- Keep multi-team efforts on track
Maintain cutsheets, as-builts, validation results, and lessons learned
- Contribute to the deployment playbook
Provide operational support
- Incident response
- Troubleshooting
- Break-fix
Skills & Experience
- Hands-on data center network engineering and understanding of modern fabrics (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, CLOS)
- Configured production infrastructure
- Thrives in the field, equally comfortable pulling cable, configuring switches, and troubleshooting the optical layer
- Executes with whatever tooling is available
- Thrive in troubleshooting methodically across physical and logical layers: OTDR traces, insertion loss, BGP sessions, and connectivity through complex topologies
- Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, documents well, and follows through
- Learns fast and takes ownership of ramping on new technology
- Travel 50 to 60% to onsite deployments
Bonus
- AI fabric turn-up experience
- Configuration management and automation tooling
- Vendor certifications
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Join a fast-growing pre-series A company at the ground floor
- Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents
- Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud native community
- Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more