Backbone Network Engineering Principal

What you'll do

• Define and evolve network architectures and own connectivity between data centers, the internet, and public cloud environments.
• Lead network security, hardware lifecycle, platform certification, and remediation; serve as a technical escalation point and mentor engineers.
• Build and maintain network automation and tooling, and use AI models in engineering workflows.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of network engineering or architecture experience, including data center or service-provider scale.
• Deep expertise in large-scale data center and WAN/backbone design, load balancing and application delivery; hands-on firewall and edge TLS termination experience.
• Software-driven engineering skills with Ansible, Python, and Git-based workflows; AI model fluency and ability to apply models in engineering workflows.
• Proven leadership of multi-team, multi-year architecture efforts; strong security background in vulnerability management, software qualification, and secure protocol configuration.

Nice to have

• Public cloud connectivity and hybrid architectures; AI data center network design for GPU clusters.
• Familiarity with liquid cooling and high-density facility considerations.

Pay

$197,300 - $313,700 annually (base salary); $237,700 - $344,700 annually (base salary)

Tools

Ansible, Python, Git, Cisco, F5, Juniper, Ciena, AWS

AI focus

Use AI models in day-to-day design, development, analysis, and documentation; apply AI models effectively in engineering workflows.