Senior Network Automation Engineer – EU (Remote-First)

Megaport

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Parental leave

Birthday leave

Wellness allowance

Study leave

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Job summary

Megaport is seeking a senior backend engineer who thrives on ownership, reducing technical debt, and delivering customer‑driven features. You will lead peers, balance debt reduction with feature work, and work on scalable RESTful services within a no‑ego, remote‑first team.

Join Megaport’s global engineering group to help shape reliable network automation tools and contribute to a platform used across the world.

Qualifications

5+ years of software development experience using Perl and Mojolicious.
Experience with relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL).
Experience with distributed datastores and NoSQL (Cassandra).
Proven experience building backend services within web app ecosystems.
Ability to act as a technical lead for small projects (up to 4 developers).
Excellent collaboration and communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
Automation-focused mindset and strong problem-solving skills.
Experience maintaining secure REST APIs and versioned APIs.
Familiarity with networking concepts like IP routing and MPLS.

Responsibilities

Contribute to enhancing our Perl codebase powering network automation systems with modular design and tests.
Identify and reduce technical debt, improve performance, and participate in scaling decisions.
Build and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs with proper monitoring.
Lead code reviews, write reliable tests, and improve CI/CD pipelines.
Mentor junior engineers through pairing and thoughtful feedback.