Job DescriptionNetwork Design, Development, and Validation:- NW engineering background - experience in designing and configuring CLOS NW for cloud services
- Lead firmware upgrades, configuration refreshes, feature rollouts, and controlled network changes in partnership with operations and deployment teams.
- Deep experience designing large-scale leaf-spine and multi-fabric data center networks aka CLOS architecture.
- Hands-on expertise with Ethernet switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IP addressing, routing scale, ECMP, QoS, and network segmentation.
- Strong knowledge of management, OOB, console-server, and production data-center network architectures.
- Experience with network operating systems and hardware platforms such as Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus/NX-OS, NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus, or comparable platforms.
- Experience designing or operating AI/HPC/GPU cluster networking, including RDMA/RoCE, lossless Ethernet, and high-bandwidth fabrics.
- Experience leading firmware lifecycle management, configuration standardization, vulnerability remediation, and network change governance.
- Participates in solution architecture discussions, providing technical guidance on network requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
- Identifies and assesses complex risks in network design and recommends mitigation strategies before deployment.
- Collaborates with vendors and internal stakeholders to align on hardware, firmware, software, and cloud network code requirements.
- Designs playbooks for resolving common and uncommon network issues involving moderately complex systems.
- Analyzes network workflows to identify inefficiencies and proposes scalable solutions to improve performance.
Automation and Scripting:- Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, Git, and CI/CD.
- Experience with capacity planning, hardware-resource/TCAM analysis, and large-scale routing-table design.
- Can partner with NW automation teams to design and develop NW modeling and configuration rendering solutions, to be able to review configuration diffs and mitigate configuration issues on NW switches.
- Designs and builds advanced modules within automation frameworks to support testing, operations, and service reliability across multiple environments.
- Automates high-impact network tasks for production and lab environments, and optimizes repetitive, cross-team workflows to improve operational efficiency.
- Develops and maintains advanced dashboards, telemetry tools, and alerting systems to enable proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution.
- Writes, enhances, and documents reusable scripts that streamline routine network operations across teams and product domains.
- Modifies and extends infrastructure pipelines and configuration management tools to meet evolving requirements using existing playbooks and custom logic.
- Independently configures and extends tools to support new products or services, ensuring alignment with platform standards and integration best practices.
Testing and Quality Assurance:- Designs and develops advanced test strategies and reusable test cases that validate complex network systems and enhance long-term network integrity and reliability, including testing network features in lab environment and rolling it out in production.
- Leads team-level test practices and cross-functional collaboration, helping define robust testing protocols and ensuring consistency in execution across environments.
- Implements and refines post-incident validation methods, integrating break-fix outcomes and lessons learned into continuous test improvements.
- Reviews and approves L1 and L2 network changes and presents high-impact changes to cross-team change management boards, ensuring risks are understood and mitigated.
- Partners with cross-functional teams to drive pre-production validation efforts, ensuring systems and environments meet compliance and deployment-readiness criteria.
- Prepares and delivers audit documentation and test evidence to support internal Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes, maintaining alignment with security and policy requirements.
Monitoring and Reliability:- Works with others (e.g. monitoring teams) to customize dashboards, telemetry pipelines, and alerting systems, defining service level objectives (SLOs) based thresholds and metrics to monitor network health.
- Partners with monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to refine alerting systems and enhance early detection of network anomalies and degradation.
- Leads incident response during support rotations, driving root cause analysis and coordinating cross-team resolution for escalated issues.
- Builds and improves internal tools that enable frontline support teams to efficiently respond to network failures and recurring operational issues.
Cross-Team Collaboration and Leadership:- Drives test and deployment milestones in collaboration with project/program managers, adapting plans to address risks and ensure cross-team alignment.
- Mentors junior engineers and acts as a technical SME, providing hands-on guidance in resolving complex issues.
- Leads customer engagements on technical escalations and delivers clear, actionable root cause analysis (RCA) documentation.
- Influences team-level roadmap and architecture decisions, contributing solutions that align with broader engineering goals.
- Coordinates with vendors and internal teams to resolve standards misalignment, ensuring integration meets technical and operational expectations.
Performance and Capacity Management:- Leads analysis of network performance metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, packet loss) to identify systemic inefficiencies and drive scalable improvements.
- Forecasts infrastructure needs using performance and capacity data, ensuring systems are prepared for anticipated traffic and service growth.
Planning & Execution:- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines
Location: on-site Seattle, WA, or Redwood City or Santa Clara.
ResponsibilitiesQualifications:- Deep experience designing large-scale leaf-spine and multi-fabric data center networks.
- Hands-on expertise with Ethernet switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IP addressing, routing scale, ECMP, QoS, and network segmentation.
- Strong knowledge of management, OOB, console-server, and production data-center network architectures.
- Experience with network operating systems and hardware platforms such as Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus/NX-OS, NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus, or comparable platforms.
- Experience designing or operating AI/HPC/GPU cluster networking, including RDMA/RoCE, lossless Ethernet, and high-bandwidth fabrics.
- Experience with network telemetry and observability: gNMI, streaming telemetry, SNMP, syslog, inventory/CMDB integration, and monitoring systems.
- Experience leading firmware lifecycle management, configuration standardization, vulnerability remediation, and network change governance.
- Strong incident-management and root-cause-analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate technical architecture and tradeoffs to engineering, operations, leadership, and customers.
Minimum Job QualificationsEducation and/or Experience:11 years of experience in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 7 years of experience in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 5 years of experience in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, or related field. AND 3 years of experience in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development.
Network Provider Experience:3 years of experience working in a large internet service provider (ISP) or cloud provider environment.
Network Modeling Experience:3 years of experience working with network modeling and programming (e.g., YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF, Terraform, Python).
Testing and Automation Experience:5 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
Physical Network Support Experience:4 years of experience in large-scale physical network support.
Virtual Cloud Networking Experience:3 years of experience in large-scale virtual cloud networking.
OCI/AWS or other Similar Cloud Associate:Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification within 6 months of hire.
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