# Network Engineer, Real-Time Infrastructure

**Company:** [Deepgram](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/deepgram)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** BGP, Ospf, Cdn, AWS, Load Balancing, TCP/IP, DNS, Tls, Http/2, Http/3, Vlan, Websocket, Webrtc, InfiniBand, Roce
**Posted:** 2026-04-06

> Owns global network infrastructure for real-time voice AI, optimizing latency across hybrid cloud, bare metal, and edge environments. Requires 5+ years in network engineering with expertise in BGP, OSPF, AWS, CDN, and load balancing.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Architect and optimize Deepgram's global network for real-time audio streaming, minimizing latency across geographic regions
- Design and manage CDN and edge computing strategies to bring processing closer to end users
- Configure and maintain **BGP** routing, including peering relationships and route optimization for multi-cloud and bare metal environments
- Implement and tune load balancing solutions that intelligently distribute traffic across heterogeneous infrastructure (cloud, bare metal, **GPU** clusters)
- Build and optimize multi-cloud networking architectures spanning **AWS**, other cloud providers, and on-premises data centers
- Design and maintain bare metal networking including top-of-rack switching, spine-leaf architectures, and high-bandwidth **GPU** interconnects
- Develop latency measurement, monitoring, and optimization tooling to continuously improve network performance
- Plan and execute network capacity expansions as Deepgram's traffic and infrastructure footprint grow
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure network designs support both real-time inference and large-scale training workloads
- Establish network security best practices including segmentation, **DDoS** mitigation, and access control policies

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in network engineering, including design, implementation, and operations
- Deep expertise with **BGP**, **OSPF**, and other dynamic routing protocols in production environments
- Hands-on experience designing and operating load balancing solutions at scale
- Strong understanding of **CDN** architectures and content delivery optimization
- Experience with cloud networking, specifically **AWS VPC** design, transit gateways, peering, and hybrid connectivity
- Practical experience with bare metal networking -- switch configuration, **VLAN** design, physical infrastructure
- Solid understanding of **TCP/IP**, **DNS**, **TLS**, and **HTTP/2** / **HTTP/3** performance optimization
- Experience with network monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis tools

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with real-time streaming protocols (**WebSocket**, **WebRTC**, **RTP**/**RTSP**) and optimizing networks for media traffic
- Knowledge of **GPU** cluster networking including **InfiniBand**, **RoCE** (**RDMA over Converged Ethernet**), and high-bandwidth interconnects
- Experience with multi-cloud networking spanning **AWS**, **GCP**, and/or **Azure**
- Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (**Ansible**, **Terraform**, or similar)
- Experience with anycast routing and global traffic management
- Background in network performance optimization for latency-sensitive applications
- Understanding of **DDoS** mitigation strategies and network security at scale

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