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Production Network Engineer

Job in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, 94029, USA
Listing for: Socket.dev
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Network Engineer, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 135000 - 191000 USD Yearly USD 135000.00 191000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of large-scale production network projects spanning data center fabrics, backbone infrastructure, and edge network services
  • Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap contributions 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, build processes, 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 team-level goals by defining scalable approaches to network operations and influencing tooling and platform decisions across engineering teams
  • Advise 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
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ 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 engineering teams through written proposals, design reviews, and stakeholder alignment
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting networks at hyperscale, including multi-vendor spine-leaf data center fabrics and global backbone interconnects
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Familiarity with software-defined networking principles, network operating system internals, or co-development of network management platforms with software engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • 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

$135,000/year to $191,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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