Staff Network Engineer, Deployment

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin seeks a senior network engineer to own deployment turn-up, define ZTP flows, and build scalable validation suites for fabric readiness.

You will diagnose link and fabric issues from optics to routing, lead end-to-end deployments, and contribute automation using Python or Go to accelerate scale and reliability. This role demands ownership and a proven track record with large GPU fabrics.

Qualifications

• The candidate has senior hands-on experience with large network deployments.
• Experience building ZTP and validation automation at scale.
• Ability to debug link and fabric issues from optics to routing.
• Demonstrated history of delivering deployments with minimal punch lists.
• Bonus: InfiniBand/RoCE exposure and GPU fabric experience; scripting automation.

Responsibilities

• Own technical execution of network deployment across sites.
• Define and implement ZTP flows, validation suites, and acceptance criteria.
• Resolve escalations on complex link/fabric issues.
• Automate repetitive turn-up tasks into tooling.

Skills

Senior network engineer

ZTP automation

Validation automation

Networking debugging

Deployment leadership

Tools

Python

Go

InfiniBand

RoCE

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.

• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Role Scope

• Own technical execution of network deployment: the standards, tooling, and hardest problems across every site turn-up.

• Set the technical playbook: ZTP flows, validation suites, and acceptance criteria per fabric.

• Take the escalations nobody else can close: the link that won't train, the fabric that won't converge.

• Automate the turn-up: anything done twice by hand becomes tooling.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've been the senior technical hand on large network deployments.

• You've built ZTP and validation automation that ran at scale.

• You debug link and fabric issues from optics to routing.

• Deployments you've led finished clean, with no punch list of mystery links.

• Bonus: InfiniBand and RoCE. 100k+ GPU fabrics. Python or Go automation. Optics-level debugging.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.