Senior Software Engineer, Network Tooling

Responsibilities

• Design and develop network state management systems covering provisioning, configuration management, topology and routing state, and control-plane APIs.
• Scale distributed control-plane systems to support increasing network scale, device counts, and infrastructure complexity.
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems for reliable network operations.
• Own initiatives from ideation through development and deployment.
• Mentor engineers, participate in technical assessments and code reviews, and contribute to technical direction.
• Partner with product, operations, and engineering teams on networking needs and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Advocate for CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Deliver tooling used by operations and engineering teams to deploy, monitor, and maintain network infrastructure.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including consensus, state reconciliation, fault tolerance, and high availability design.
• Experience designing and building scalable, reliable APIs or services used by multiple teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction.
• Bonus: experience with networking software, routing, switching, BGP, SDN, or control-plane systems.
• Bonus: experience at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or large-scale data center operator.
• Bonus: familiarity with gNMI, gRPC, or NETCONF.
• Bonus: experience with Kubernetes orchestration or custom controllers/operators.
• Bonus: contributions to open-source infrastructure or networking projects.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages, including Restricted Stock Units and bonus eligibility.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, leave of absence programs, and volunteer time off.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer HSA contributions.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Commuter benefits for parking and transit.
• Cell phone stipend.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary.
• Global travel insurance and emergency assistance.
• Daily meals allowance and additional location-specific perks.