# Senior Network Engineer
**Company:** [Together AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/together-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $190K-$250K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** BGP, Ospf, Vxlan, Evpn, Qos, Python, Ansible, Cisco, Arista, Juniper
**Posted:** 2026-01-15
> Designs, implements, and maintains large-scale hybrid data center networks for optimal performance and reliability. Requires 8+ years experience with BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, automation tools like Python/Ansible, and vendors like Cisco/Arista.
## Job Description
## 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

## 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

## 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

US base salary range: **$190,000 - $250,000** + equity + benefits. Individual compensation determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
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