Network Operations Engineer (AI)

Location

Must be based in San Francisco, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; or Seattle, WA (On-site role)

Salary: $173,000 – $279,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, focused on delivering massive compute capacity through rapid data center design and operation.

What you will do

• Carry the on-call pager for the network fleet and manage end-to-end repair processes.
• Develop Python and Go tooling to automate link diagnostics and remote command execution.
• Build and maintain automated repair pipelines, including RMA initiation and ticket integration.
• Maintain real-time monitoring and alerting platforms for hyperscale infrastructure.
• Validate new sites and hardware through qualification testing before production traffic.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Proven experience carrying a pager for a production network and managing outages independently.
• Proficiency in writing Python or Go scripts to automate repetitive network tasks.
• Hands-on experience with link diagnostics, optics, and protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, and SONiC.
• Comfortable working at the CLI on switches and routers across a large fleet.
• Ability to quickly reach competence in unfamiliar parts of the stack and document findings.

Nice to have

• Experience with RMA and repair lifecycle automation.
• Knowledge of large-scale datacenter fabric (BGP, ECMP, spine-leaf).
• Familiarity with out-of-band network management.
• Fluency with AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with competitive base salary and equity.
• Opportunity to work on high-intensity, civilization-scale AI infrastructure problems.
• Culture of extreme ownership, velocity, and first-principles thinking.
• Comprehensive benefits package included.