Senior Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap for the VPC control plane and lead the evolution of network virtualization systems such as OVN/OVS.
• Deliver VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, NAT, and internet/hybrid connectivity.
• Oversee distributed control-plane services, including intent APIs, state reconciliation, network policy compilation, and southbound programming of hosts and DPUs.
• Drive scalability beyond the current fleet size.
• Lead reliability engineering, convergence and API-latency benchmarking, regression prevention, and incident response.
• Mentor and grow senior and staff-level distributed systems engineers.
• Set technical standards and foster a high-performance culture of accountability.
• Partner with data-plane and cloud product teams to deliver low-latency, highly available networking for multi-tenant GPU clusters.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering.
• 5–7+ years managing senior- and staff-level talent.
• Deep knowledge of SDN and network virtualization, including overlay networking, VPC constructs, routing, and control-plane architectures such as OVN/OVS or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes, including state reconciliation, consensus and consistency trade-offs, API design, and fleet-wide configuration propagation.
• Strong understanding of operating multi-tenant cloud services, including SLOs, convergence-time and scale benchmarking, graceful degradation, and blast-radius containment.
• Ability to resolve complex technical challenges in a fast-moving, execution-heavy environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with DPU- or SmartNIC-programmed dataplanes.
• Experience with cloud load balancing or NAT at scale.
• Experience with network security policy engines.
• Open-source contributions to OVN/OVS or other SDN projects.

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation range of $250,000–$300,000 plus bonus.
• Restricted Stock Units included in all offers.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave programs.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer HSA contributions.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Commuter benefits, cell phone stipend, and a 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary.
• Volunteer time off, global travel insurance, emergency assistance, daily meals allowance, and location-specific perks.