Senior Network Edge Engineer - Global Interconnects

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 165,000 - 270,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Sr. Network Edge Engineer for Starlink to shape and deploy interconnection infrastructure globally. You will lead peering and transit opportunities, design policies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize routing and cost efficiency.

The role requires 5+ years in network infrastructure, expertise in BGP, IP routing, telemetry, and experience with IXPs and traffic engineering. Travel and on-call rotations are expected as part of the role.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in network infrastructure (peering, interconnection engineering, backbone architecture).
Experience with BGP, IP routing and network telemetry.
Experience with IXPs, colocation environments, optical transport, and traffic engineering strategies.

Responsibilities

Define and develop projects, milestones, and maintain roadmaps, practicing flexible prioritization and scope management to deliver on program directives.
Lead the strategic evaluation and analysis of peering and transit opportunities, balancing cost efficiency, performance, and routing control across dozens of global markets.
Interact with key stakeholders to identify their desired outcomes, take their inputs and deliver improvements to Peering owned processes.
Build and maintain technical and commercial relationships with global peering partners. Use existing deep industry connections to accelerate execution.
Design and maintain peering policies, including traffic management, route filtering, redundancy planning, and failover strategies.
Collaborate with diverse teams across Starlink to ensure seamless integration of peering implementation.
Lead global IX strategy, including location selection, capacity planning, and onboarding of new interconnects.
Work with partner teams to automate and operationalize interconnection workflows, including route validation, telemetry, incident response, and lifecycle tracking.