# Network Automation Engineer

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $208k – $269k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, gnmi, gRPC, netconf, sonic, link diagnostics, optical networks, network monitoring, LLM APIs, ai coding tools, BGP, ecmp
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Own end-to-end network fleet health, monitoring, debugging tooling, and automated repair pipelines for massive AI datacenter infrastructure. Requires systems thinking, building automation in Go/Python, experience with optical networks and protocols like gNMI/gRPC/NETCONF/SONiC, and daily use of AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own network fleet health end to end: define realtime monitoring requirements, build alerting lifecycle, and ship dashboards for network state across all sites.
- Build active debugging tooling including link diagnostics, remote command execution across the fleet, and repair visualization.
- Turn repair into a pipeline: build automation from detection through parts management, return to service, ticket integration, repair lifecycle pipelines, transceiver and optics tracking.
- Own network qualification and validation: build frameworks that gate new sites and hardware into production.
- Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operation of the network at-scale with aggressive automation, tooling, and incident discipline.

## Requirements
- Treat toil as a bug and build tools to eliminate manual work (e.g., automating link failure diagnosis instead of manual SSH/commands).
- Think in systems: understand how faults (transceiver, route misconfiguration, power events) propagate and build tooling to distinguish them.
- Move toward ambiguity, build maps, and explain them to others.
- Learn at a steep slope and reach competence in unfamiliar domains quickly.
- Comfortable carrying a pager, running incidents, writing postmortems, fixing systemic causes.
- Fluent with AI tooling: LLM APIs, MCP servers, agentic frameworks; drive Claude Code, Cursor, or similar daily.
- Shipped production network tooling or automation that other teams depend on; comfortable in any language using AI coding tools.
- Developed automation tools in Go and Python.
- Experienced in link diagnostics, optical networks, and network monitoring (gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, SONiC).

## Nice-to-Haves
- RMA and repair lifecycle automation.
- Large-scale datacenter fabric (BGP, ECMP, spine-leaf).
- Out-of-band network management.

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