Senior Network Engineer - Datacenter & HPC Fabric

SpaceXSI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate production datacenter and campus/core networks at scale in Palo Alto. You will own routing and switching standards (BGP and IGP), qualify platforms, and help maintain high availability as we grow our compute fabrics.

The role requires hands-on skills in data-center networking, strong troubleshooting, and the ability to contribute to capacity planning and automation efforts. Travel to build sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with BGP and an IGP.
• Solid TCP/IP, VLANs, EVPN/VXLAN knowledge.
• Experience troubleshooting live production network incidents.
• Clear change docs and incident notes.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate production datacenter and campus/core networks at scale.
• Own routing and switching configuration standards including change design and reviews.
• Qualify new network platforms and topologies; contribute to capacity planning.
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation.
• Troubleshoot incidents end to end and drive root-cause fixes.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Python or Ansible to reduce toil.
• Collaborate with compute, facilities, and software teams during builds.
• Support RoCE/HPC fabrics as part of the broader network estate.

Skills

BGP

Troubleshooting

Communication

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Arista

Cisco

Juniper

NVIDIA/Mellanox

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

SpaceXSI is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate production datacenter and campus/core networks at scale in Palo Alto. You will own routing and switching standards (BGP and IGP), qualify platforms, and help maintain high availability as we grow our compute fabrics.

The role requires hands-on skills in data-center networking, strong troubleshooting, and the ability to contribute to capacity planning and automation efforts. Travel to build sites may be required.