Datacenter Network Engineer – High-Performance & Automation

SpaceX Super Intelligence; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision, and Dental

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale production networks. The role requires hands-on ownership of routing, switching, and capacity planning for datacenter and campus/core networks, with on-call rotation and travel to build sites.

You will automate tasks with Python/Ansible, qualify new platforms, and collaborate with compute, facilities, and software teams to maintain high availability in a high-performance supercompute environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field
• Several years designing and/or operating production networks in a datacenter, ISP, cloud, or large enterprise environment
• Solid hands-on experience with BGP and at least one interior routing protocol
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, EVPN/VXLAN or equivalent datacenter overlays, and optics/high-speed Ethernet
• Experience troubleshooting live production network incidents and participating in on-call
• Strong written and verbal communication; clear change docs and incident notes

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate production datacenter and campus/core networks at scale
• Own routing and switching configuration standards (BGP and at least one IGP like OSPF or IS-IS)
• Qualify new network platforms, optics, and topologies; contribute to architecture and capacity planning
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation
• Troubleshoot Layer 2/Layer 3 incidents end to end and drive root cause fixes
• Automate repetitive network tasks with Python, Ansible, or similar tooling
• Partner with compute, facilities, and software teams during cluster build-outs
• Support high-performance / supercompute network environments including RoCE/NCCL ownership

Skills

BGP

IGP (OSPF/IS-IS)

TCP/IP

VLANs

EVPN/VXLAN

Optics

On-call experience

Python

Ansible

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

SpaceXSI is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale production networks. The role requires hands-on ownership of routing, switching, and capacity planning for datacenter and campus/core networks, with on-call rotation and travel to build sites.

You will automate tasks with Python/Ansible, qualify new platforms, and collaborate with compute, facilities, and software teams to maintain high availability in a high-performance supercompute environment.