Senior Network Production Operations Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, CA; Bellevue, WA; or Sunnyvale, CA, US

Salary: $165,000–$200,000 annually, plus bonus and restricted stock units

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated energy and AI infrastructure, operating systems from energy generation through cloud services to support large-scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Support production reliability across global edge, backbone, data center fabric, and GPU cluster networks.
• Build and maintain Python tooling to automate remediation, diagnostics, and operational workflows.
• Respond to high-severity network incidents, including detection, triage, mitigation, stakeholder communication, and postmortems.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive network remediation items to completion.
• Develop observability automation using streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes.
• Maintain runbooks, escalation playbooks, SOPs, dashboards, alerts, and reliability metrics with Architecture and SRE teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of production network engineering experience focused on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale environments.
• Strong Python and scripting skills for diagnostic tooling and automation.
• Experience with streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, and related APIs.
• Experience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning.
• Production knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, TCP/IP, Arista EOS, and Junos in leaf-spine CLOS architectures.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; willingness to support on-call operations.

Nice to have

• Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU clusters.
• Familiarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility.
• Experience contributing to SLIs and SLOs with SRE or product teams.
• Experience operating fleets of 10,000+ devices in hyperscale or cloud environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with bonus, restricted stock units, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching up to 4% of salary.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, including employer HSA contributions.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, volunteer time off, and paid life and disability insurance.
• Professional development, tuition reimbursement, and mental health and wellness support.
• Commuter benefits for parking and transit, plus a cell phone stipend.