Production Network Engineer

Lead the design and delivery of large-scale production network projects spanning data center fabrics, backbone infrastructure, and edge network services

Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for network reliability, capacity, and operational efficiency across multiple teams

Develop and implement automation frameworks to reduce manual operational overhead and accelerate network design synthesis, network build and configuration management

Own cross-functional incident response and post-incident review processes, driving root cause analysis and systemic improvements to reduce recurrence

Identify and resolve complex network performance, routing, and reliability issues across multi-vendor, multi-protocol production environments

Collaborate with network architecture, capacity planning, and software engineering teams to align infrastructure investments with evolving AI and product demand forecasts

Establish and refine operational standards, runbooks, and monitoring frameworks to improve network observability and reduce mean time to detection and resolution

Contribute to organizational strategy by defining scalable approaches to network operations and influencing tooling and platform decisions across engineering teams

Mentor other engineers on network engineering best practices, operational discipline, and systems thinking across the production environment

Leverage AI-integrated workflows to accelerate network analysis, anomaly detection, and documentation, sharing learnings to scale adoption across the team

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of experience in production network engineering, including design, deployment, and operations of large-scale data center or backbone network infrastructure

Experience with routing protocols and network technologies including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and large-scale Ethernet fabrics in a production environment

Experience developing and deploying network automation using scripting or programming languages such as Python to manage configuration, provisioning, or monitoring at scale

Experience leading cross-functional network reliability or infrastructure projects, including driving incident response, root cause analysis, and systemic remediation

Experience influencing technical decisions and network strategy across multiple engineering teams through written proposals, design reviews, and stakeholder alignment

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Experience operating and troubleshooting networks at hyperscale, including multi-vendor spine-leaf data center fabrics and global backbone interconnects

Experience with network observability platforms, traffic engineering, and capacity modeling in high-throughput production environments

Experience integrating AI tools to redesign network operations workflows and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency or reliability outcomes

Familiarity with software-defined networking principles, network operating system internals, or co-development of network management platforms with software engineering teams

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies