Senior Network Engineering Manager & Infra Lead

Cirrascale

San Diego (CA)

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 200,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Cirrascale is seeking a hands-on Manager, Network Engineering to lead a small team of senior network engineers while remaining deeply involved in design and execution of SD-WAN, multi-homed internet edge, and cloud interconnect infrastructure. You will own architecture, operations, and expansion across data centers, cloud, and customer environments.

You will partner with the VP of Engineering to set technical direction, drive execution, and act as primary escalation point for networking,

Qualifications

7+ years of experience in network engineering or related infrastructure roles.
2+ years managing or leading a team of engineers (people management, team lead, or acting manager capacity).
Experience hiring, coaching and performance-management of technical staff.
Ability to balance people management duties with hands-on technical work.
Experience with multi-homed internet edge architectures supporting >10Gbps sustained throughput and SLA-backed uptime.
Experience implementing DDoS mitigation strategies or integration with scrubbing providers (preferred).
Experience designing and operating hybrid cloud interconnects and customer connectivity solutions.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop a small team of network engineers, including regular 1:1s, performance management, and career development planning.
Own hiring, onboarding, and growth of the team as network scale demands.
Translate the engineering roadmap into team goals, priorities, and execution plans; delegate work and remove blockers.
Establish and manage the team's on-call rotation, escalation paths, and operational rigor.
Own relationships with upstream providers, peering partners, and key network vendors, including escalations.
Own the architecture and operation of the company's internet edge, including ASN management, peering strategy, and global routing policy.
Design, configure, and maintain SD-WAN, LAN, WAN, VPN, firewall, and switching/routing environments.
Oversee deployment of InfiniBand fabrics for GPU cluster infrastructure.
Drive telemetry and BGP monitoring to detect routing anomalies, traffic shifts, and DDoS conditions.
Ensure network performance, reliability, and uptime through monitoring and escalation-level troubleshooting.
Lead incident response for network edge events and postmortems with remediation plans.
Support the buildout of new infrastructure within our GPU cloud platform.
Represent networking across Engineering and Platform teams; set standards for documentation.
Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and network optimizations.
Oversee data center migrations, hardware upgrades, and capacity planning.