Staff Engineer - Cloud Networks
Leads the technical direction, design, and operation of large-scale multi-cloud network infrastructure, with a focus on connectivity, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. Requires deep BGP and software-defined networking expertise plus strong software development and production operations experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds in a multi-region environment.
- Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable network paths.
- Set technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability and performance.
- Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support platform needs.
- Lead investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures, from packet capture and path analysis through cloud-provider escalations.
- Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.
Requirements
- Deep networking expertise, including BGP, route policies, path selection, and prefix advertisement.
- Experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale software-defined networks, including interconnected environments.
- Strong software development skills and a code-first approach to operating networks.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems, set direction, and drive cross-team collaboration across distributed teams.
- Practical experience operating production infrastructure and responding to incidents, including on-call ownership where applicable.
Benefits and Compensation
- Generous and competitive benefits package.
- New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
- Employee-focused onboarding, mentoring, and cross-departmental buddy programs.
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- Estimated yearly salary: $244,000–$305,000 USD.
Skills
AWS, GCP, Azure, BGP, Route Policies, Software-Defined Networking, Multi-Cloud Networking, Packet Analysis, Network Infrastructure, Production Infrastructure, Python, Cloud Networking
Similar jobs
DevOps / SRE jobs
Skydio
San Mateo, CAOwns and scales production cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and observability. The role requires 8+ years of infrastructure experience, strong Kubernetes operations expertise, and depth in reliability or scaling challenges.
Polymarket
New York, NY
Staff Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing and operating scalable infrastructure for growth systems, including onboarding, referrals, and user acquisition. The role requires 7+ years of production infrastructure experience, strong reliability instincts, and independent judgment in a high-autonomy environment.
Crusoe
San Francisco, CAOwns deployment, CI/CD, and integration-testing automation for large-scale multi-node GPU and CPU clusters. The role requires 12+ years of experience, strong Python or Bash skills, and expertise across Linux, Kubernetes, configuration management, GPU ecosystems, and high-performance networking.
Crusoe
San Francisco, CALeads software development for diagnostics, observability, automation, and repair tooling across large-scale GPU clusters and data center infrastructure. The role requires distributed systems and cloud-platform expertise, proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust, and hands-on operational problem solving.
Headway
San Francisco, CAOwn the cloud platform, deployment architecture, container infrastructure, networking, autoscaling, cost controls, and Python runtime health for a high-scale healthcare technology platform. The role requires 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE work, deep AWS expertise, Terraform experience, and Staff-level cross-team influence.