You will lead the organization responsible for the physical and logical network fabric powering an AI-first cloud. You will manage architects, managers, and senior and staff engineers across edge, backbone, data center, and SDN/cloud domains; set multi-year architecture strategy; arbitrate cross-domain tradeoffs; establish engineering standards and design reviews; and partner with product, hardware, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Own the company-wide architecture strategy across edge, backbone, data center, and SDN/cloud domains
- Arbitrate tradeoffs between backbone capacity, data center fabric bandwidth, and SDN overlay overhead
- Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and design review processes
- Set the strategy for PoP design, peering, IX participation, and edge compute and caching placement
- Set the strategy for long-haul and core network design, BGP, MPLS, segment routing, optical transport, and redundancy
- Set the strategy for spine-leaf fabrics, RDMA interconnects, and power- and cooling-aware rack design
- Set the strategic direction for SDN control planes, Kubernetes networking, service meshes, VPCs, load balancers, and security groups
- Champion intent-based networking, GitOps, and network source-of-truth practices
- Lead executive-level remediation for major cross-domain outages
- Partner with product, hardware, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders on multi-year roadmaps
- Align software and operations teams on execution
Requirements
- 12+ years in network engineering or architecture
- 5+ years managing individual contributors
- Experience leading network architecture at hyperscale across 1000+ switches and multi-campus or multi-region environments
- Fluency across edge, backbone, data center fabric, and SDN/cloud networking
- Strong command of SDN and cloud-native networking
- Experience setting multi-year technical strategy and influencing VP or C-level stakeholders
- Experience building and scaling technical organizations, including hiring and developing senior and staff engineers
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience with hyperscalers, AI cloud providers, HPC centers, or large-scale colocation operators is a bonus
- Experience supporting multi-node GPU training infrastructure is a bonus
- Familiarity with SONiC OS, P4 programmable data planes, or formal network verification tools is a bonus
- Open-source networking contributions are a bonus
- Relevant CCIE or JNCIE certifications are a bonus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance