Bloomberg

Senior Software Engineer - Network Security

Bloomberg$160K — $240K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience with object-oriented programming, preferably Python.
  • Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer.
  • Experience in building and enhancing automations for network infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with automation or orchestration frameworks like Ansible, Terraform, or Chef.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain software tools for managing a multi-vendor network.
  • Automate the full network lifecycle including provisioning and troubleshooting.
  • Collaborate with architecture and design teams for new technology implementation.
  • Enhance tools for network observability and performance.
  • Improve existing monitoring frameworks with intelligent alerting capabilities.
  • Define service-level objectives to track performance and reliability.
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote best software engineering practices.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and generous benefits plan.
  • Paid holidays and time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Short and long term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with match.
  • Life insurance and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
Description & Requirements

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a critical member of the team responsible for the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure that supports Bloomberg's core products and services. This includes building and maintaining a network that is scalable, secure, reliable and robust. Our network is vast, connecting several large-scale Data Centers and over a hundred edge sites. It connects Bloomberg to hundreds of thousands of our clients, over 1,500 global exchanges and trading venues over private connectivity, Internet and Public Cloud.

This is a unique opportunity to help build robust, highly scalable solutions that will power the future of how Bloomberg automates network infrastructure. You'll be trusted to design and work on tooling that builds on automation best practices and principles.

We'll trust you to
  • Develop and maintain software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor network with an emphasis on automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code.
  • Automate the full network lifecycle-including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
  • Collaborate with architecture and design teams and the CTO office to implement new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
  • Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.
  • Enhance existing monitoring and observability frameworks, integrating intelligent alerting and self-remediation capabilities to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response.
  • Define and measure service-level objectives (SLOs) to track infrastructure performance and reliability.
  • Write software utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices throughout the team.
  • Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle.

You'll need to have
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
  • Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages preferably in Python.
  • Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer.
  • Experience with building, maintaining and continuously enhancing automations needed for scalability & efficiency in running the Network Infrastructure.
  • Experience in infrastructure Automation or orchestration Frameworks e.g. Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Salt.


We'd love to see
  • Experience managing and automating network devices at scale such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Whitebox, Broadcom, etc
  • An understanding of various Network and Security architectures across Internet, Public Cloud, Private Networks, DWDM and Optical Networking, Data Centre builds and design fundamentals. etc.
  • Experience with network modelling
  • Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others
  • Experience with Telemetry: Splunk, Grafana, Humio
  • Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools
  • Experience implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IGMP, TCP, HTTPS, DNS, PIM related internal and external network routing issues in a production environment
  • Knowledge with messaging queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc


Salary Range = 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service (Bloomberg News), a global television network (Bloomberg Television), digital websites, a radio station (WBBR), subscription-only newsletters, and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, and Bloomberg Pursuits.
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