Network Engineer

Better Stack; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Better Stack is building a global, cloud-scale network across multiple data centers. This role focuses on designing networks for both software and hardware, optimizing peering, and reducing transit costs while maintaining reliability.

You’ll be part of a fast-moving engineering team, with async‑first communication and IaC-first practices, working across North America, Europe, and Prague. A strong sense of humor and experience with modern networking gear are valued.

Responsibilities

• Design networks for existing and new data center locations across software and hardware
• Guide hardware purchases for best price-to-performance
• Collaborate with Tier 1 transit providers, IXs, and peers to optimize peering
• Monitor network stability, mitigate abuse, and manage transit costs
• Participate in hardware installations and handle real-world issues
• Be on-call for network-related incidents and incident management

Job description

Network Engineer

• Hardcore
• Remote (North America & Europe)
• Prague
• $60K - $250K/year + equity
• $120K - $500K/year + equity

The challenge

• We’re building a global cloud-scale network to support our growing software products, and we need your help.
• We operate data centers across three time zones, with more locations likely coming soon.
• We previously outsourced our network management, but our growth now warrants a full-time in-house team that can keep pace with our fast-moving product engineering.

This might be for you if

• You’ve operated networks at scale. Think Nx Tbps, and thousands of physical servers or more.
• You’ve connected networks to Internet exchanges (IXs) and established private peerings.
• You’ve mitigated DDoS attacks. Too many times.
• You’re a pro with Arista and Dell gear. But you’ll find your way around any hardware.
• You’re comfortable with BGP, ECMP, BFD, VRRP, VLANs, LACP, MLAG, VXLAN/EVPN, IPv6, DNS64/NAT64, CoPP, RPKI, OVN, WireGuard, GRE, QoS, MTU, conntrack, and Linux networking. You understand how packets flow through switches, routers, hypervisors, and virtual machines. And you can troubleshoot at every layer.
• You’ve pulled off zero-downtime live migrations. And they were actually zero downtime.
• You have a great sense of humor! You’d tell us a UDP joke, but we wouldn’t get it.
• You have a sysadmin or engineering background and can keep pace with a team of talented engineers.
• You’re AI-native. You’re constantly improving your Claude Code setup to work smarter.
• You communicate clearly and confidently in English, both in writing and in conversation.
• You hate meetings and work async‑first. Slack, Notion, Loom, and e‑mail for external communication.
• Infrastructure as code is your default. Not an afterthought.

What you’ll do

• You’ll design networks for our existing and new data center locations, across both software and hardware. You’ll help guide our hardware purchases, aiming for the best price-to-performance ratio. Anyone can pick a Juniper MX301 out of a catalog. But what will you do when you find out the lead time is a year and it costs a kidney?
• You’ll work with Tier 1 transit providers, Internet exchanges, and other network operators to establish and optimize peering relationships.
• You’ll monitor network stability, prevent and mitigate abuse, and optimize transit costs.
• You’ll take part in hardware installations and deal with real-world issues.
• You’ll be on‑call for network‑related issues. Don’t worry, we know a thing or two about incident management.

Who you’ll work with

• Juraj, our CEO; Tomas, our CTO; and Veronika, our COO. All technical, all software engineers.
• Our distributed team of stellar software engineers optimizing our products for your network.
• Our data center team responsible for installing and debugging hardware. They move fast and get sh*t done. Picture an F1 pit crew. That’s what our data center installations often look like.
• Generally speaking, we consider ourselves a professional sports team. Everyone aims to be the best in the world at what they do. From YC alumni to ex‑Google and ex‑Shopify colleagues, you’ll be in great company.
• We hope to learn a lot from you, and we’re sure you’ll learn a lot from us, too.