Cloud Networking Engineer

Next Signal Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equity

Small, senior+ team

Job summary

Next Signal Inc. in Cincinnati, OH, is building a cloud infrastructure engineering team to watch the clouds across AWS, GCP, and Azure and to own end-to-end surface area from day one. You will work on telemetry pipelines, outage detection, and cloud networking infrastructure in a fast-moving startup.

We value engineers who thrive in loosely defined problems, ship fast with AI-assisted coding, and are comfortable building new systems from scratch with observable impact for customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud infrastructure or related field.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (multi-cloud a plus).
• Knowledge of cloud networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, DNS, VPN/Direct Connect.

Responsibilities

• Monitor AWS, GCP, and Azure to detect degradation before customers notice.
• Build telemetry pipelines for latency, packet loss, DNS, and availability signals across regions.
• Develop outage detection logic with timestamped, evidence-backed incident records.
• Design cloud networking infrastructure using VPCs, Transit Gateways, routing, and related primitives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code across the platform.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Network engineering

Go or Python

APIs at scale

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Engineering Full-Time Cincinnati, OH (or Remote)

Cloud providers fail, and when they do, billions in SLA credits go unclaimed because the claims process is opaque and manual. Next Signal monitors major cloud vendors, detects disruptions in real time, and automatically manages the claims process so customers recover what they're owed without adding operational overhead.

We're a small, technical team building something genuinely new. This is the kind of company you'll want to have been at from the start.

The Role

You'll build the systems that watch the clouds: network telemetry pipelines, outage detection logic, and the evidence collection infrastructure that wins our customers their money back. You'll own significant surface area from day one and work directly with the founding team.

What This Role Is Not

This role is not for someone who prefers clearly defined playbooks or narrow, predictable responsibilities. It's not for engineers who would rather maintain existing systems than build new ones. If stability and incremental change are what you're looking for, this will feel misaligned.

What You'll Work On

• Monitoring systems that continuously probe AWS, GCP, and Azure to detect degradation before customers notice
• Telemetry pipelines capturing latency, packet loss, DNS resolution, and availability signals across regions
• Outage detection logic that turns raw signals into timestamped, evidence-backed incident records
• Cloud networking infrastructure using VPCs, Transit Gateways, routing, and related primitives
• Infrastructure as Code across the platform

How We Work

• Ship end-to-end features with guidance; own them over time
• Write AI-native; 80%+ of code is written with AI assistance and we expect fluency with these tools
• Optimize for speed, avoid over-engineering, and stay honest about tradeoffs
• Work in a 0-to-1 codebase where the decisions you make today will matter for years

What You Bring

• 3+ years in cloud infrastructure, network engineering, or a related discipline
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider; multi-cloud exposure is a plus
• Working knowledge of cloud networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, DNS, VPN/Direct Connect
• Ability to write production-grade code (Go, Python, or similar)
• Comfort working with APIs at scale: polling, event-driven patterns, rate limiting, reliability
• Ability to take loosely defined problems and drive toward a working solution without a spec
• Experience scaling and designing distributed systems
• Obsessive attention to the details others skip, treating architecture as the user experience because our users are developers
• An ego in check: a bias for shipping great software over winning arguments, measuring yourself by impact and winning or losing as a team
• Resilience and adaptability to build from scratch, seeing an undefined roadmap as a blank canvas rather than a roadblock

Bonus

• 3+ years of experience building monitoring, telemetry, or observability systems
• Startup or 0-to-1 experience

Compensation

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Remote-friendly with team offsites
• Small, trusting team of senior + staff engineers
• Default async with minimal bureaucracy

We'd love to hear how you think about building systems that watch the clouds.