Senior Network Platform Engineer – Global VoIP & APIs

bandwidth; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Four weeks paid time off

Protected time-off policy

Milestone leave for life events

Wellness program with nutritionist

Job summary

bandwidth is seeking a senior software engineer to build programmable APIs and services for global voice network infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of backend software, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and telecom, delivering scalable, observable platforms deployable across worldwide data centers.

You will design and operate backend services, own end-to-end initiatives, and contribute to architecture decisions while maintaining 24x7 on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering building prod services at scale.
• 4+ years developing backend services, APIs, automation, or platform capabilities.
• Experience designing and owning public or internal APIs with versioning, reliability, and observability.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures, Linux environments, and major cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with VoIP concepts (SIP, RTP/RTCP) and voice infrastructure.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous problems, build prototypes, and support on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate backend services and platform APIs for voice network infrastructure.
• Develop scalable orchestration and abstraction layers for globally distributed systems.
• Own initiatives end-to-end from design to production readiness.
• Build services for scalability, resiliency, and geo-redundant deployments.
• Maintain well-defined service contracts with backward compatibility and observability.
• Collaborate across teams to translate telecom requirements into platform capabilities.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

VoIP concepts (SIP/RTP)

On-call readiness

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

bandwidth is seeking a senior software engineer to build programmable APIs and services for global voice network infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of backend software, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and telecom, delivering scalable, observable platforms deployable across worldwide data centers.

You will design and operate backend services, own end-to-end initiatives, and contribute to architecture decisions while maintaining 24x7 on-call readiness.