Senior Python API Engineer for Networking & Infra

Telnyx; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Telnyx seeks a senior engineer at the intersection of software and networking to own customer-facing APIs and the orchestration that provisions real infrastructure. You will harness async Python, Go, and FRR/VyOS familiarity to deploy VPNs, BGP configurations, and edge services across PoPs.

You will design API resources, translate requests into network deployments, and manage the config lifecycle with a focus on reliability, rollback, and health checks in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building customer-facing REST APIs over real infrastructure.
• Strong async Python in production and comfortable with Go.
• Hands-on routing knowledge: BGP, VRFs, NAT, GRE, WireGuard.
• Postgres migrations, locking, and live queue management.
• Extensive remote orchestration: Ansible at production scale.

Responsibilities

• Design the API resource and orchestration code turning requests into deployments.
• Own the BGP config rendering onto the fleet and related health checks.
• Push config changes to VyOS/FRR nodes and manage wireguard lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain the orchestration control plane and data plane layers.
• Work with cloud interconnects and Envoy-based data planes.

Skills

Async Python

Go

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

BGP

VyOS/FRR

Ansible

NetBox/IPAM

Network troubleshooting

Tools

aiohttp

uvloop

SQLAlchemy

aiopg

netmiko

asyncssh

Jinja2

Envoy xDS

Job description

Telnyx seeks a senior engineer at the intersection of software and networking to own customer-facing APIs and the orchestration that provisions real infrastructure. You will harness async Python, Go, and FRR/VyOS familiarity to deploy VPNs, BGP configurations, and edge services across PoPs.

You will design API resources, translate requests into network deployments, and manage the config lifecycle with a focus on reliability, rollback, and health checks in a fast-paced environment.