Staff Network Engineer, WAN
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150 - 300
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
About Fluidstack
At Fluidstack were building the infrastructure for abundant intelligence. We partner with top AI labs governments and enterprises - including Mistral Poolside Black Forest Labs Meta and more - to unlock compute at the speed of light.
Were working with urgency to make AGI a reality. As such our team is highly motivated and committed to delivering world-class infrastructure. We treat our customers outcomes as our own taking pride in the systems we build and the trust we earn. If youre motivated by purpose obsessed with excellence and ready to work very hard to accelerate the future of intelligence join us in building whats next.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Network Engineer WAN to architect and operate the global network backbone connecting Fluidstacks data centers and GPU clusters. You will be responsible for designing high-performance secure and reliable wide-area networks (WANs) to support data movement across regions. You will work closely with our compute storage infrastructure and facility teams to ensure seamless low-latency connectivity across our infrastructure footprint.
Focus
Architect implement and maintain high-throughput low-latency WAN links across data center sites.
Experience with optical transport (DWDM ROADM coherent optics) and platforms such as Ciena
Lead carrier engagements end-to-end: circuit procurement contract negotiation SLA management and escalation
Monitor and optimize interconnect performance including routing packet loss and bandwidth usage.
Coordinate physical fiber entries cross-connects and demarcation points with ICT and facility teams
Develop and maintain WAN capacity models; forecast bandwidth needs aligned to deployment roadmap
Automate configuration provisioning and monitoring of WAN infrastructure.
Deploy and maintain site-to-site VPNs private peering and direct connects with hyperscalers.
Troubleshoot complex network issues.
Implement best practices for redundancy failover and disaster recovery.
Collaborate with infrastructure engineering SREs and software teams.
Support future growth by contributing to global network expansion plans.
About You
7 years of experience in network infrastructure engineering with a focus on WAN design and operations.
Deep understanding of network routing protocols (BGP OSPF) MPLS and IPsec VPNs.
Strong documentation habits; ability to create runbooks topology diagrams and decision records
Proven experience with fiber transport circuits and carrier peering arrangements.
Strong knowledge of Linux networking and systems administration.
Experience with infrastructure automation (e.g. Ansible Terraform NetBox).
Familiarity with monitoring and telemetry tools (e.g. Grafana Prometheus ELK or custom tooling).
Ability to manage projects across multiple sites and time zones.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Salary & Benefits
Competitive total compensation package (salary equity).
Retirement or pension plan in line with local norms.
Health dental and vision insurance.
Generous PTO policy in line with local norms.
The base salary range for this position is $150000 - $300000 per year depending on experience skills qualifications and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email please email with your resume/CV the role youve applied for and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
