Staff Software Engineer – Networking

Jobtailor

California (MO)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Network Software Engineer to build and operate production network services using Go and Python. You will drive SRE practices, define reliability targets, and contribute to hybrid connectivity across on‑premises and cloud environments.

Strong leadership and mentoring are expected. You will collaborate with cloud, security, and platform teams while maintaining high availability and performing on-call incident responses.

Qualifications

Proven experience building and operating production network software and automation.
Strong networking, software engineering, Linux, and cloud infrastructure skills.
Experience with on-call support and incident response.
Ability to lead projects and mentor engineers as a senior individual contributor.
Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience, preferred.
6+ years of relevant software, networking, or SRE experience preferred.
Experience with large-scale networks, SRE practices, high-throughput data systems, EVPN, or VXLAN is a plus.
Strong software development experience building and operating production services in Go, Python, or comparable modern programming languages.
Experience with distributed systems, software design, APIs, concurrency, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, debugging, and production operations.
Strong Linux systems knowledge.
Strong networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, TCP/IP, DNS, data center networking, and BGP.
Hands-on experience with GCP networking, including VPCs, Shared VPCs, routing, firewall policies, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform or Ansible.
Experience with Kubernetes and continuous or GitOps-based delivery workflows.
Familiarity with observability and telemetry technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, or centralized logging platforms.
Must report to the applicable office at least three times per week if living within a 50-mile radius.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain production network software and automation.
Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production network services in Go and Python.
Develop APIs, controllers, integrations, and tools for network provisioning, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.
Apply SRE principles to reduce operational toil, configuration drift, and recurring failures.
Build telemetry and observability capabilities for hybrid connectivity and network-service health.
Contribute to hybrid network architecture connecting on-premises data centers, validation environments, test facilities, and GCP.
Lead or mentor engineers as a hands-on senior contributor and participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

On-call incident response

Go programming

Python programming

Networking fundamentals

Linux systems knowledge

Cloud infrastructure

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Telegraf

GCP Networking

Job description

Build and maintain software systems that automate, manage, and operate the secure hybrid network fabric supporting the global AV development pipeline
Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production network services in Go and Python
Develop APIs, controllers, integrations, and tools for network provisioning, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management
Apply distributed systems, API design, concurrency, automated testing, and safe rollout strategies to network infrastructure
Advance Network as Code practices through version-controlled, peer-reviewed, tested, and CI/CD-deployed network changes
Define, monitor, and improve SLOs for network services
Apply SRE principles to reduce operational toil, configuration drift, and recurring failures
Build telemetry and observability capabilities for hybrid connectivity and network-service health
Contribute to hybrid network architecture connecting on-premises data centers, validation environments, test facilities, and GCP
Design secure, scalable, multi-tenant network solutions for sensitive AV data and high-performance workloads
Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and self-service capabilities
Partner with network, cloud, security, and platform teams
Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers as a hands-on individual contributor
Optimize network paths from hardware ingestion points through hybrid connectivity into cloud storage and compute
Support low-latency, high-throughput, highly available connectivity for validation environments and HIL simulations
Integrate validation worker pools with cloud-native infrastructure and services
Build safeguards for reliable, observable, and recoverable high-volume data movement
Implement least-privilege access, segmentation, encryption in transit, and automated policy enforcement
Use performance testing, telemetry, and capacity planning to maintain throughput and reliability
Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
Diagnose failures using logs, metrics, traces, packet captures, and network telemetry
Lead or contribute to blameless incident reviews and corrective actions
Manage error budgets and balance delivery velocity with service reliability

Requirements

Proven experience building and operating production network software and automation
Strong networking, software engineering, Linux, and cloud infrastructure skills
Experience with on-call support and incident response
Ability to lead projects and mentor engineers as a senior individual contributor
Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience, preferred
6+ years of relevant software, networking, or SRE experience preferredProfessional networking or cloud certification preferred
Experience with large-scale networks, SRE practices, high-throughput data systems, EVPN, or VXLAN is a plus
Strong software development experience building and operating production services in Go, Python, or comparable modern programming languages
Experience with distributed systems, software design, APIs, concurrency, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, debugging, and production operations
Strong Linux systems knowledge
Strong networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, TCP/IP, DNS, data center networking, and BGP
Hands-on experience with GCP networking, including VPCs, Shared VPCs, routing, firewall policies, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity
Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform or Ansible
Experience with Kubernetes and continuous or GitOps-based delivery workflows
Familiarity with observability and telemetry technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, or centralized logging platforms
Must report to the applicable office at least three times per week if living within a 50-mile radius

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and operating production network software, with a strong focus on automation, cloud infrastructure, and SRE principles. Proficient in developing secure, scalable network solutions and mentoring engineering teams in a collaborative environment.

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