Senior Software Engineer, Network
About The Role
As a member of the Networking team, you will play a key role in shaping future network architecture. You operate comfortably across hardware and software boundaries, writing code to automate infrastructure and bringing strategic expertise to designing, implementing, and maintaining systems. You approach Networking problems with a bias towards vendor-agnostic IaC solutions.
- Manage our networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity in our physical data centers and cloud
- Design and build network telemetry, monitoring, and observability
- Build and maintain an automated change management pipeline to deploy network configuration revisions and provision hardware
- Ensure critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems and implementing improvements to prevent future issues
- Make and collaborate on key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure, such as our hybrid cloud architecture
- Be responsible for liaising with third parties, vendors and internet service providers as well as traveling to our Bay Area and New Jersey data centers and offices for onsite networking projects
Requirements
This role could be a fit if you have:
- Proficiency with automation technology including Terraform, Ansible, and Chef
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Go, Python, or Ruby and configuration management tools such as Git
- Demonstrated experience with Linux systems
- Experience with automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning
- Proficiency with Networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong candidate may also have:
- Experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
- Background on VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc
Benefits
- Provide you with a mentor who will support you in your onboarding journey
- Encourage you to lead impactful projects that match your professional goals
- Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our bi-annual reviews
- Provide autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- 401K plan
- Generous time off and parental leave
- Wellness reimbursements
- Professional development opportunities
- Employee investing discount
Pay
Estimated annual salary range: $172,000 - $228,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
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