Network Engineer - Global Carrier & Backbone Connectivity

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 162,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI by owning and operating a global network of data centers and connectivity. We seek an autonomous professional to own external connectivity, plan backbone capacity, and negotiate terms with carriers and fiber providers.

You will help ensure diversity, low latency, and cost efficiency across our fleet. Join a team that moves with insane urgency and solves frontier problems, delivering high-performance networks for AI

Qualifications

• You've engineered carrier and long-haul connectivity at scale.
• You've procured dark fiber and lit services and know where the contracts hide risk.
• You plan capacity with data and buy ahead of need.
• You hold carriers to SLAs with escalation paths you built yourself.

Responsibilities

• Own external connectivity: carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet.
• Plan backbone capacity between sites years ahead of the traffic that will fill it.
• Negotiate technical terms with carriers and fiber providers alongside sourcing.
• Own the connectivity roadmap: diversity, latency, and cost engineered deliberately.

Skills

Carrier connectivity at scale

Dark fiber procurement

Long-haul & subsea systems

DWDM

Peering strategy

SLA management

Job description

Fluidstack in Austin is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI by owning and operating a global network of data centers and connectivity. We seek an autonomous professional to own external connectivity, plan backbone capacity, and negotiate terms with carriers and fiber providers.

You will help ensure diversity, low latency, and cost efficiency across our fleet. Join a team that moves with insane urgency and solves frontier problems, delivering high-performance networks for AI