Principal Networking Architect & Platform Lead

Radiant

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance
Cycle to Work Scheme
Gympass subscription
Participation in company shares
Enhanced parental pay & leave

Job summary

Radiant is seeking a Principal Software Engineer - Networking to set the technical direction for its networking software and lead designs that automate and operate the fabric connecting GPU clusters. You will work across high-performance fabrics, automation, and multi-tenant systems, partnering with product, infrastructure, and security teams.

The role is hands-on technical leadership focused on fast, reliable, software-driven networks through architecture, code, and standards.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale network software or software-driven networks.
  • Leadership at staff or principal level delivering complex, high-stakes systems.
  • Hands-on engineering in Go or similar language.
  • Deep technical expertise across fabrics, networking, automation, and multi-tenancy.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical vision and architecture for Radiant's networking software and lead its design and implementation.
  • Design and build the control plane that provisions, configures, and automates cluster fabrics and Managed Networks.
  • Translate product and customer requirements into robust architectures, APIs, and technical designs with Product.
  • Own network performance, isolation, and reliability for AI workloads.
  • Lead integration of networking with compute, Kubernetes, storage, security, and observability.
  • Drive operational excellence with SRE and Infra Ops, including automation, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Raise the engineering bar through mentoring, design and code review, and standards.

Skills

Technical leadership
Go
Networking expertise
Architectural judgement

Tools

NVIDIA Networking
SONiC
Cumulus

Job description

Radiant is seeking a Principal Software Engineer - Networking to set the technical direction for its networking software and lead designs that automate and operate the fabric connecting GPU clusters. You will work across high-performance fabrics, automation, and multi-tenant systems, partnering with product, infrastructure, and security teams.

The role is hands-on technical leadership focused on fast, reliable, software-driven networks through architecture, code, and standards.

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