Staff Network Engineer — AI‑Powered Cloud Networking Leader

Altruist; Northern, Los Angeles (KY, CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Premium healthcare

401k with 4% match

Parental leave

Work from anywhere policy

Job summary

Altruist is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to own the multi-region AWS network, define topology, segmentation, and secure connectivity for partners. You will drive IaC with Terraform, collaborate with Security, and bring an AI-native approach to networking at scale.

The role is hybrid, three days onsite in San Francisco or Culver City, with responsibilities spanning design, incident response, and cross-region failover while guiding a growing engineering team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in network engineering
• 3+ years in cloud-native environments
• Experience designing/operating production networks at scale
• Zero trust / SASE experience (ZTNA, SECaaS or related)
• Terraform and IaC as default; scripting (Python/Bash/Go)
• Kubernetes networking knowledge (CNI, ingress, east-west)

Responsibilities

• Own multi-region AWS network architecture (VPC, Transit Gateway, routing)
• Design segmentation to isolate workloads and deliver network as code
• Lead transition to zero trust / SASE model with strong device posture
• Collaborate with Security to meet regulated standards and audits
• Manage partner connectivity (VPNs, BGP, Direct Connect)
• Oversee office/edge networking and location readiness
• Define observability and lead incident response, DR, cross-region failover
• Apply AI-native approaches to network ops and drift detection
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers

Skills

Network engineering

Cloud networking

Zero trust / SASE

Terraform

Kubernetes networking

AI-native tooling

Security partnership

Incident response

BGP / IPsec

Direct Connect

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes networking

Direct Connect

VPN

BGP

GitOps

Job description

Altruist is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to own the multi-region AWS network, define topology, segmentation, and secure connectivity for partners. You will drive IaC with Terraform, collaborate with Security, and bring an AI-native approach to networking at scale.

The role is hybrid, three days onsite in San Francisco or Culver City, with responsibilities spanning design, incident response, and cross-region failover while guiding a growing engineering team.