Principal Network Engineer

Principal Network Engineer

If you can design and stand up a 400GbE spine-leaf network from scratch to do eBGP and then automate the configuration to deploy it across a 20k node cluster with a button click, this role is for you!

As a principal network engineer, you'll be responsible for the design, provisioning, and management of networks that underpin and interconnect large-scale GPU clusters on a global scale. Areas of involvement include network architecture design, automated fabric provisioning and validation, performance monitoring and optimization, high performance distributed storage system interconnects, and work on globally distributed cross-datacenter interconnects.

In-person is preferred, working out of our San Francisco office, but remote applicants will be considered.

About You

• You have previous experience with technologies associated with HPC and GPU networks including RoCEv2, InfiniBand, eBGP, EVPN / VXLAN, QoS, and ACLs
• You have experience architecting resilient high performance networks including fat-tree and multi-layer spine-leaf topologies, MLAG / LACP
• You have prior experience with network automation using Ansible, Bash, Python, etc.
• You are comfortable operating and have opinions about Arista, Cisco, Dell, Juniper, OCP, SONiC
• You are comfortable configuring NGFW's
• You appreciate and value good documentation

Nice to Haves

Benefits

Generous Equity Grant

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement Matching

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, Dental & Vision

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time Off

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental Leave

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily Lunch

We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited Office Book Budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

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We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance and California's ban-the-box laws.

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