Network Engineer

• Design, build, automate, and operate data center networking supporting large-scale GPU clusters, AI workloads, and multi-tenant cloud services
• Develop secure tenant isolation architectures across customer environments
• Design resilient, highly available network architectures across compute, storage, and infrastructure services
• Work across multiple networking platforms and vendors, including Arista, Juniper, HPE, and other enterprise networking providers
• Partner with hardware, infrastructure, virtualization, and platform engineering teams to optimize networking for AI training and inference workloads
• Build infrastructure automation for deployment, configuration management, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Define networking standards, architecture documentation, and engineering best practices
• Evaluate emerging networking technologies and shape the long-term evolution of the AI networking platform

Principal Staff Data Center Network Engineer

• Architect, build, automate, and operate data center networking for large-scale GPU clusters, AI workloads, and multi-tenant cloud services
• Develop secure tenant isolation architectures for performance, scalability, and security
• Design resilient, highly available network architectures across compute, storage, and infrastructure services
• Work across networking platforms and vendors including Arista, Juniper, HPE, and other enterprise providers
• Partner with hardware, infrastructure, virtualization, and platform engineering teams to optimize networking for AI training and inference workloads
• Build infrastructure automation for deployment, configuration management, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Define networking standards, architecture documentation, and engineering best practices
• Evaluate emerging networking technologies and shape the long-term AI networking platform
• Own the design, automation, and evolution of the data center network
• Establish networking architecture and strategy as an early networking engineer

Staff Data Center Network Engineer

• Design and build network automation and orchestration systems for reliable deployment and operation of DigitalOcean's global network infrastructure
• Develop software for network provisioning, configuration management, device lifecycle management, validation, monitoring, and automated remediation
• Design and build software integrating with DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable network infrastructure
• Develop automation for large-scale datacenter and Point of Presence deployments, including hardware, network fabrics, routing infrastructure, and vendor integrations
• Build abstractions across network vendors and hardware implementations while maintaining operational safety and reliability
• Build diagnostic tools and automate operational workflows for network and infrastructure issues
• Convert manual, repetitive, or error-prone infrastructure operations into scalable software solutions
• Partner with network engineers and infrastructure architects to translate networking and hardware requirements into maintainable software architectures
• Establish engineering standards for infrastructure software development, testing, observability, and operational readiness
• Lead projects from technical design through implementation, deployment, and long-term operation
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the engineering organization
• Own technical direction for significant areas of network and infrastructure software
• Define architecture for integrating DPUs and programmable infrastructure into production
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives and document architecture, requirements, tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, and decisions through RFCs
• Use AI tooling to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and technical exploration while maintaining production-quality standards
• Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies and build cross-functional partnerships across engineering organizations

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