Staff SIP Engineer

Weave; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is seeking a VoIP Engineer to own and optimize a cloud-based voice platform. You will work hands-on with SIP/RTP infrastructure and core components like Kamailio, RTPengine, FreeSWITCH, and Homer, building Golang microservices and deploying in Kubernetes.

You will collaborate with engineering and operations, improving reliability, performance, and call quality while applying DevOps best practices and IaC across major cloud environments, including Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working as a VoIP network engineer.
• Experience with Kamailio, OpenSIPS, FreeSWITCH, RTPengine, and Asterisk.
• Experience with troubleshooting tools such as Wireshark, sngrep, and Homer.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP networks and SIP/RTP protocols.
• Programming experience with Go, Java, or C.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and LUA.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure tools Terraform and Ansible.
• Comfort operating production services in major cloud environments (Google Cloud preferred).
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and incident remediation.

Responsibilities

• Grow and manage a distributed cloud-based VoIP platform.
• Optimize and troubleshoot Kamailio/FreeSWITCH configurations for performance and reliability.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain services supporting the voice platform.
• Monitor VoIP network performance and implement improvements.
• Troubleshoot call quality, signaling/connectivity issues, and outages.
• Develop Golang-based microservices and containers for the voice ecosystem.
• Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes environments.
• Maintain Kamailio and FreeSWITCH instances.
• Improve observability for SIP/RTP with HEP/Homer and telemetry.
• Collaborate with SRE/Platform teams to enhance CI/CD and IaC.

Skills

VoIP networks

Go

Java

C

Python

Bash

Lua

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Tools

Kamailio

OpenSIPS

FreeSWITCH

RTPengine

Asterisk

Wireshark

sngrep

Homer

Job description

Weave is looking for a VoIP Engineer with a strong background in modern communication tools and cloud technologies to help maintain and optimize our distributed, cloud-based voice platform. In this role, you'\'ll ensure our communication systems are robust, efficient, scalable, and observable—working hands-on with SIP/RTP infrastructure and core components like Kamailio, RTPengine, FreeSWITCH, and Homer/HEPIC. You'\'ll collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, performance, and customer call quality while shipping improvements through DevOps best practices.

This position can be remote, in-office, or hybrid.

Reports to: Engineering Manager.

What You Will Own

The duties and responsibilities of the role.

• Grow and manage a distributed cloud-based VoIP platform
• Optimize and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH and Kamailio configurations for performance, resiliency, and reliability
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain services that support the voice platform
• Monitor and analyze VoIP network performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement solutions to enhance quality and efficiency
• Troubleshoot and resolve VoIP-related issues including call quality problems, signaling/connectivity issues, and system outages
• Develop Golang-based microservices and containers that support the voice ecosystem
• Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes environments
• Maintain and configure Kamailio and FreeSWITCH instances
• Implement and improve observability for SIP/RTP flows using HEP/Homer and telemetry (metrics/logs/traces) to accelerate incident response and root-cause analysis
• Partner with SRE/Platform teams to improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and reliability practices (e.g., automated rollouts, canarying, and repeatable environments)

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

The minimum qualifications for the role: education, experience, certifications, skills.

• Previous experience working as a VoIP network engineer
• Experience with VoIP applications such as Kamailio, OpenSIPS, FreeSWITCH, RTPengine, and Asterisk
• Experience with troubleshooting tools such as Wireshark, sngrep, and Homer
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP networks, firewalls, and related protocols (SIP, RTP, RTCP, TLS, ICE, STUN, TURN, WebRTC)
• Programming experience with a major language such as Go, Java, or C
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and LUA
• Experience with DevOps tools for cloud infrastructure management and automation such as Terraform and Ansible
• Flexibility and adaptability in learning new technologies and tools
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Keen attention to detail
• Experience operating production services in a major cloud environment (Google Cloud preferred), including networking concepts such as VPCs, load balancing, service discovery, and IAM/security fundamentals
• Comfort participating in on-call rotations and driving incident remediation through postmortems and follow-up engineering work

What Will Make Us Love You

Preferred qualifications - including personality traits and soft skills.

• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting large-scale VoIP networks
• Certifications in Kamailio or OpenSIPS
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations (deployments, services/ingress, Helm/Kustomize, autoscaling, and debugging)
• Experience designing or improving call-quality tooling (MOS/RTCP analytics, jitter/loss monitoring, SBC/edge routing strategies, or capacity planning).

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