# Network Tech Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $242k – $284k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Network Architecture, BGP, Network Automation, Data Center Networking, Silicon, Optics
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Technical lead owning network architecture, standards, design reviews, and cross-domain escalations for large-scale AI compute infrastructure. Requires senior authority on very large network estates and fabric-scale decisions.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Own technical direction across the network: architecture decisions, standards, and the hardest cross-domain problems.
- Set the technical bar: design reviews, automation standards, and the source-of-truth model everything generates from.
- Take the escalations that span domains: fabric, backbone, and facility networks interacting badly.
- Mentor senior engineers into architects.

## Requirements
- Been the senior technical authority for very large network estates.
- Made architecture decisions at fabric-generation scale and lived with the consequences.
- Review designs at a level that makes strong engineers better.
- Debug the problems that cross every boundary.

## Nice-to-Haves
- 100k+ accelerator fabrics.
- BGP at scale.
- Network automation architecture.
- Silicon and optics roadmap fluency.

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