Network Team Lead

Fluidstack

$130K — $180K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven leadership in network engineering organizations during periods of rapid growth.
  • Experience hiring network engineers in a competitive market.
  • Ability to manage both roadmap development and operational needs effectively.
  • Track record of increasing team efficiency and speed to delivery.
  • Familiarity with AI and HPC networking, multi-site projects, and vendor management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the network engineering team to meet organizational priorities.
  • Own and execute the network roadmap, addressing fabric generations and backbone expansion.
  • Ensure seamless collaboration between design, deployment, and production teams.
  • Proactively build an engineering team to meet future demand, targeting 10GW of network needs.
  • Administer operational cadence to align team objectives with performance.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • Lead the network engineering team: hiring, growth, priorities, and delivery across design and operations.
  • Own the network roadmap from fabric generations to backbone expansion, sequenced to the build plan.
  • Run the operating rhythm between design, deployment, and production so the network org moves as one.
  • Build the team ahead of demand: 10GW of network needs engineers the market barely produces.

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 led network engineering organizations through rapid scale.
  • You've hired network engineers in a market where everyone is hiring them.
  • You balance roadmap work and operations without letting either starve.
  • Engineers you've led ship faster because of how you run the team.
  • Bonus: AI and HPC networking. Multi-site programs. Vendor relationship ownership. Automation-first organizations.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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