# Senior Network Engineer

**Company:** [Together AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/together-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $190k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** BGP, Ospf, Vxlan, Evpn, Qos, Python, Ansible, Wireshark, Tcpdump, Nmap, Mtr, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Mellanox
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Senior Network Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance compute network infrastructure for AI systems. Requires 8+ years experience with large-scale data center networks, deep expertise in routing/switching protocols, automation, and multi-vendor hardware.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, manage and maintain global multi-vendor, multi-protocol high performance compute networks.
- Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues to minimize downtime.
- Evaluate and recommend network technologies, hardware, and software solutions.
- Participate in design reviews to ensure the proposed network architecture aligns with business needs and is optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Manage relationships with external vendors and partners to test and verify hardware and software selections.
- Develop and deploy systems and tools to keep all networks running reliably and efficiently.
- Establish and implement industry best practices and contribute to the design of new scalable network solutions.
- Ensure compliance with IT governance standards and best practices.
- Lead projects to address complex technical challenges, directly contributing to roadmaps and partner alongside the best engineers in the industry to develop world-class solutions.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience building, managing, and supporting large-scale hybrid data center networks (excluding enterprise networks).
- High level of proficiency with TCP/IP networking architecture and technologies such as BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, and QoS.
- Experience developing network automation pipelines using Python, Ansible, or other languages/tools utilized in infrastructure automation.
- Proficient in using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, nmap, MTR, and curl to identify connectivity issues, latency problems, and network bottlenecks.
- Experience designing and supporting multi-tenant networks.
- Hands-on experience deploying and supporting network devices from Cisco, Arista, Juniper, and Mellanox.
- Experience working with cloud networks such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Solid experience working in and troubleshooting within a Linux environment.

## Preferred
- Knowledge of RoCE and Infiniband protocols a plus.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Slurm a plus.
- Understanding of AI training workloads and the demands they exert on networks a plus.

## Compensation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $190,000 - $270,000 + equity + benefits.

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