Network Engineer, Connectivity & Strategy

Fluidstack

$100K — $140K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in network capacity planning or carrier relations
  • Established relationships with major fiber providers
  • Strong understanding of fiber infrastructure and conduit systems
  • Experience managing fiber construction projects and timelines
  • Ability to strategically evaluate POP placement and network topology
  • Proven commercial negotiation skills for contracts and RFP processes
  • Excellent project management capabilities for managing multiple circuit orders.

Responsibilities

  • Own and develop strategic carrier relationships for connectivity
  • Manage circuit procurement from RFP through testing and acceptance
  • Coordinate with teams for ensuring diverse fiber paths
  • Oversee planning and tracking of fiber build cycles
  • Evaluate and recommend POP locations for backbone network
  • Support peering conversations with ISPs and content networks
  • Serve as connectivity expert during datacenter site selection.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity
  • Retirement or pension plan aligned with local norms
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
  • Generous paid time off policy
Full Job Description
Network Engineer, Connectivity & Strategy

The Network Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Build the networks the frontier of AI trains on. Fabrics for 100k+ accelerator clusters, backbones between gigawatt campuses, and every network in between.
  • Run 10GW of networks as one machine. Training fabrics for 100k+ accelerators, backbone, corp, and BMS/EPMS, one architecture across gigawatt campuses.
  • Deliver a full site network in days, not quarters. Designs generated from source-of-truth models, devices turned up by ZTP, every link validated by machine. At this scale, manual is an outage.

Role Scope
  • Own external connectivity: carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet.
  • Plan backbone capacity between sites years ahead of the traffic that will fill it.
  • Negotiate technical terms with carriers and fiber providers alongside sourcing.
  • Own the connectivity roadmap: diversity, latency, and cost engineered deliberately.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've engineered carrier and long-haul connectivity at scale.
  • You've procured dark fiber and lit services and know where the contracts hide risk.
  • You plan capacity with data and buy ahead of need.
  • You hold carriers to SLAs with escalation paths you built yourself.
  • Bonus: Long-haul and subsea systems. DWDM. Peering strategy. Fiber route analysis.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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