Engineering Manager (SDN Control Plane)

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

Salary: $215,000–$260,000 annually plus bonus and Restricted Stock Units

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated energy and AI infrastructure, including cloud services for large-scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Lead the team building and operating the scalable SDN control plane for VPC networking across multi-tenant GPU fleets.
• Define the VPC control-plane roadmap and evolve network virtualization systems such as OVN and OVS.
• Design distributed services for intent APIs, state reconciliation, network policy compilation, and host and DPU programming.
• Drive scalability, reliability, convergence, API latency, regression prevention, and incident response.
• Partner with data-plane and cloud product teams to deliver low-latency, highly available networking.
• Mentor and develop mid-level to senior distributed systems engineers while setting technical standards.

Requirements

• 6–8+ years of experience in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering.
• 2–4+ years of experience managing engineering talent.
• Strong knowledge of SDN, network virtualization, VXLAN/Geneve, VPCs, BGP/EVPN, and OVN/OVS or equivalent control-plane architectures.
• Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes, including state reconciliation, consistency trade-offs, API design, and fleet-wide configuration propagation.
• Experience with cloud-service reliability practices, including SLOs, scale benchmarking, graceful degradation, and blast-radius containment.
• Ability to work on-site in one of the listed US locations.

Nice to have

• Experience with DPU or SmartNIC data planes, cloud load balancing or NAT at scale, network security policy engines, or OVN/OVS and SDN open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation, bonus, equity, and Restricted Stock Units.
• Paid time off, holidays, leave programs, and parental leave.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA contributions, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Professional development, tuition reimbursement, and mental health support.
• 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4% of salary.
• Commuter benefits, daily meals allowance, cell phone stipend, and global travel insurance.