Network Engineer

Location: Onsite in Palo Alto, California, United States. Travel to Memphis and other build sites may be required.

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

Builds AI systems and the large-scale infrastructure required for training and inference.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate production datacenter, campus, and core networks at scale.
• Own BGP and interior routing configuration standards, change design, peer reviews, and execution.
• Qualify network platforms, optics, and topologies while contributing to architecture and capacity planning.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation to improve network availability and incident response.
• Troubleshoot Layer 2 and Layer 3 incidents from physical links and optics through routing and traffic engineering.
• Automate repetitive network tasks and collaborate with compute, facilities, and software teams during cluster build-outs and maintenance windows.

Requirements

• Several years of experience designing or operating production networks in a datacenter, ISP, cloud, or large enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with BGP and at least one interior routing protocol, such as OSPF or IS-IS.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, EVPN/VXLAN or equivalent datacenter overlays, optics, and high-speed Ethernet.
• Experience troubleshooting live production incidents and participating in an on-call rotation.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including clear change documentation and incident notes.
• Willingness to work onsite in Palo Alto is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Arista, Cisco, Juniper, or Nvidia/Mellanox networking platforms.
• Familiarity with RoCEv2, congestion control, GPU cluster fabrics, or other high-performance networking.
• Production experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar network automation tools.
• Experience with EVPN, leaf-spine architectures, large-scale Ethernet fabrics, and rapid datacenter capacity build-outs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on role in a small, highly motivated engineering organization with a flat structure.
• Participation in a team on-call rotation.
• Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.