Senior Product Architect for AI Cloud Networking

Netris, Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Disability insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Netris, Inc. is shaping the AI buildout by building a leading network automation platform for demanding AI clouds.

The Product Architect will sit at the intersection of deep network engineering and product thinking, translating how networks are built and operated into requirements and UX decisions that drive the Netris platform. You will report to the Head of Product and collaborate with Customers, Engineering, Customer Success, and field teams to ensure the product reflects real operator

Qualifications

• CCIE R&S or CCIE Data Center certification with production experience.
• 7+ years designing and implementing scalable network architectures.
• Fluent in EVPN/BGP and able to reason about control plane behavior.
• Understanding lossless Ethernet and RoCEv2 under congestion.
• Ability to translate network workflows into product requirements.
• Product discipline to write specs engineers can build from and designers can act on.

Responsibilities

• Translate network architecture patterns and operator workflows into detailed product requirements, functional specifications, and UX guidance that Engineering can build from.
• Own the product intent behind core networking constructs, underlay fabric, EVPN/BGP control plane, lossless Ethernet, multi-tenancy, ensuring Netris models them in ways that are both technically accurate and operationally intuitive.
• Conduct structured discovery with customers and field teams: extract network instrumentation patterns, operational pain points, and workflow gaps, then convert them into actionable product specs.
• Define and maintain product design principles for how Netris surfaces network state, events, and configuration to operators across the UI and API.
• Partner with Engineering on architecture reviews, keeping product intent intact through implementation and representing normalized customer priorities and outcomes.
• Serve as Product authority and trusted advisor purifying customer challenges into outcomes and operational reality.

Skills

CCIE R&S

CCIE Data Center

7+ years network design

EVPN/BGP

Lossless Ethernet

Product requirements

UX guidance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Netris, Inc. is shaping the AI buildout by building a leading network automation platform for demanding AI clouds.

The Product Architect will sit at the intersection of deep network engineering and product thinking, translating how networks are built and operated into requirements and UX decisions that drive the Netris platform. You will report to the Head of Product and collaborate with Customers, Engineering, Customer Success, and field teams to ensure the product reflects real operator