Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Role description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to take ownership of the systems that automate our network. This is a software engineering role at its core, where you will design and write production software, set technical direction, and raise the quality bar for the team.

What You Will Do

You will own the design, development, and long-term health of the platforms and services that automate the network, including config generation, device provisioning, workflow automation, observability tooling, and internal CLIs and APIs.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams, and who can explain the reasoning behind their technical choices, stay open to being convinced otherwise, and pick the right tool for the job.

Requirements

• 8 or more years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and Go
• Solid understanding and experience in CI/CD (testing, code review, maintaining continuous builds and deployments)
• Strong understanding of managing runtime health for services and applications at an enterprise level
• A love of process automation and toil elimination, with hands-on experience building workflow automation or orchestration systems and automated device provisioning at scale
• Strong planning skills, including the ability to lay out and drive projects across a multi-month horizon while keeping several concurrent efforts moving as part of a team
• A solid understanding of core networking fundamentals, including IP addressing and subnetting, routing/switching, NTP, and DNS
• Comfort with Linux and Kubernetes, and experience with infrastructure automation tooling such as Ansible and Jinja, a source-of-truth or IPAM and DCIM system such as NetBox, and observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana

Benefits

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement