Waabi

Senior Network Engineer

Waabi$145K — $177K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep knowledge of the OSI model.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise switching, routing, and wireless systems.
  • Proficient with firewalls, VPNs, and WAN optimization in a multi-site context.
  • Familiarity with mesh/overlay VPN and zero-trust security tools.
  • Experience in IPAM and VLAN design for multiple locations.
  • Proficient in Linux and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform).
  • Experience in network monitoring and incident response processes.
  • Strong communication skills for leading postmortems and documentation.
  • Collaboration and resourcefulness with cross-site responsibility.
  • Interest in self-driving technology and infrastructure scaling.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, deployment, and lifecycle of Waabi's multi-site network.
  • Lead ISP planning for sufficient and redundant bandwidth at all locations.
  • Manage network incident response and root cause analysis to reduce downtime.
  • Audit and enhance security configurations, ensuring network resilience across sites.
  • Implement and enforce consistent network hardware standards organization-wide.
  • Maintain IP addressing and segment network for various functions.
  • Manage zero-trust remote access tools to secure network access.
  • Support vehicle connectivity in collaboration with relevant teams.
  • Work with engineering on developing robust developer interfaces.
  • Scale network infrastructures for high-performance compute and storage solutions.
  • Create and update documentation for network documentation, topology, and disaster recovery.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
  • Unlimited vacation policy promoting work-life balance.
  • Flexible working hours with work-from-home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals available in-office.
  • Scheduled team-building activities and social events for team bonding.
  • Commitment to evolving benefits as the company grows.
Full Job Description
You will:
  • Own the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Waabi's multi-site network (switching, routing, wireless, firewall) across all locations.
  • Lead ISP/bandwidth planning, ensuring redundant, appropriately sized throughput for all sites.
  • Manage network incident response and root-cause analysis; implement on-call coverage, escalation paths, and documented runbooks to minimize resolution time.
  • Audit and harden network configurations (loop protection, storm control, STP, MC-LAG peer health) across all sites.
  • Define and enforce network hardware/firmware standards, replacing current ad-hoc per-site configurations.
  • Maintain IP addressing, VLAN architecture, and workstation/server/security/guest segmentation.
  • Evaluate and manage zero-trust remote access tooling (Tailscale, Cloudflare, Zscaler, etc.) to meet security and monitoring requirements.
  • Support vehicle connectivity in partnership with Product Infrastructure and Fleet teams.
  • Partner with Engineering to ensure reliable, fast developer-facing network paths.
  • Scale our network to support high performing on-prem compute, storage clusters.
  • Create and maintain network documentation, topology diagrams, and disaster-recovery/escalation runbooks.

Qualifications:
  • Deep knowledge of OSI model
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise switching, routing, and wireless platforms and lifecycle management.
  • Experience operating firewalls, VPNs, and WAN optimization for multi-site organizations.
  • Familiarity with mesh/overlay VPN and zero-trust tools.
  • Experience with IPAM and VLAN design across multiple sites.
  • Linux proficiency and IaC tooling experience (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform).
  • Experience with network monitoring, observability, and building on-call/incident-response processes.
  • Excellent communication skills, comfortable leading postmortems and documenting technical/non-technical findings.
  • Collaborative, resourceful mindset with a willingness to own responsibilities across sites.
  • Interest in self-driving technology and scaling infrastructure.

Bonus:
  • Experience with in-vehicle/industrial/OT networking and field hardware support.


The Canada salary range for this role is: $145,000 - $177,000 CAD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi Canada Inc.'s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company's compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all Canada locations. Note: The Company may provide additional compensation for employees in this role, including discretionary equity incentive awards and discretionary annual performance bonus.

Perks/Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
  • As we grow, this list continues to evolve!

About Waabi

Waabi is an artificial intelligence company that develops self-driving car technology. The company's focus is on developing a system that can safely and efficiently navigate complex urban environments. Waabi's technology is based on deep learning algorithms that allow the system to learn from experience and improve over time. The company was founded in 2021 by a team of experts in the field of autonomous vehicles and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Waabi
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2021
NASDAQ

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