Senior Software Engineer, Network Visibility Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design the architecture for a cohesive platform that encompasses topology, configuration, telemetry, active measurement, change intelligence, and self-service experiences.

• Create an authoritative network model that integrates physical topology, logical overlays, configurations, and service dependencies.

• Identify physical and logical configuration errors during the cluster initiation process.

• Establish a telemetry and measurement strategy utilizing reachability tests, streaming signals, traffic and capacity data, as well as change and maintenance events.

• Produce health, path, blast-radius, and self-service exploration tools.

• Define interfaces, data contracts, quality standards, and operational mechanisms.

• Lead cross-functional roadmaps and make decisions balancing speed, cost, reliability, and maintainability.

• Guide engineers through essential design processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Over 10 years of relevant industry experience.

• Strong expertise in Python, Go, or a similar systems programming language.

• Proven track record in architecting and managing large-scale software or infrastructure platforms.

• In-depth knowledge of network topology and sources of truth, telemetry, active measurement, or observability products.

• Solid understanding of data center and backbone networking principles, including physical connectivity, routing, overlays, services, and customer-visible failures.

• Practical experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

• Familiarity with active or synthetic monitoring and containerized deployment on Kubernetes.

• Experience with large-scale graph, relational, time-series, streaming, API, or event-driven systems that integrate multiple data sources.

• Technical leadership across teams with sound product and operational judgment.

• Preferred: experience in leading network visibility or infrastructure intelligence platforms that span thousands of devices or hosts.

• Preferred: experience in AI or HPC networking, including RDMA, RoCE over Spectrum-X, or InfiniBand.

• Preferred: knowledge of NetBox or Nautobot, streaming telemetry (gRPC/gNMI), graph databases, or TypeScript and React.

• Preferred: experience in SRE or network operations, standards-setting, build-versus-buy evaluations, or contributions to open-source projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Benefits