Remote Hands-On Network Solutions Engineering Lead

Nexcess; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Solutions is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the architecture, delivery, and roadmap for the team responsible for its physical and virtual networking products, including load balancing, switching, firewalls, VPN, and VPC.

You will stay in the work: write specs, review pull requests, run the AI harness daily, and ship real changes that are reliable, scalable, and secure, while aligning with Product and business priorities across time zones.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience in managed hosting, cloud, or high-availability services.
• Ability to align engineering with business goals and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture design, delivery and roadmap for your team.
• Write specs, review pull requests, and ship changes.
• Run AI harness daily and drive AI-assisted outcomes.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and on-call rotations.
• Ensure long-term health and evolution of products.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on engineering

AI-assisted software development

On-call reliability

Data-driven forecasting

Tools

Perl

PHP

React

Vue

Postgres

MariaDB

HAProxy

nginx

VPN

Job description

Network Solutions is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the architecture, delivery, and roadmap for the team responsible for its physical and virtual networking products, including load balancing, switching, firewalls, VPN, and VPC.

You will stay in the work: write specs, review pull requests, run the AI harness daily, and ship real changes that are reliable, scalable, and secure, while aligning with Product and business priorities across time zones.