SoftwareNetwork Engineer

Software Engineer / Network Architect

Job Summary

Gluware is hiring a Network Engineer who has shifted into or is actively moving toward Software Engineering. This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering and joins a team of Network and Software Engineers. Youll collaborate to deliver automation solutions to Gluwares enterprise customers using our market-leading platform while staying ahead of the curve on AI-assisted workflows and tooling.

About Gluware

Gluware is the intelligent network automation industry leader powering self-operating enterprise networking for Global 2000 companies across finance healthcare pharma energy and more. Our platform helps the worlds largest enterprises prevent critical network outages maintain compliance and keep pace with ever-changing business requirements through a multi-vendor multi-platform intent-based approach that requires no custom scripting.

Our solutions span the full network automation lifecycle: Discovery & Inventory OS Manager Config Model Editor Config Drift & Audit Network RPA Topology Workflows and more all backed by DIAL (our Device Interaction and Automation Layer). Were also actively building and Gluware Titan bringing AI natively into network automation workflows.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package real growth opportunities and a team that genuinely enjoys the work. Come help us push enterprise networking forward.

Responsibilities

• Build and test supported vendor reference architectures in Gluwares physical and virtual lab environments
• Document working reference architecture implementations used in production enterprise networks
• Translate vendor architectures into the Gluware orchestration engine via dynamic data modeling
• Contribute code and fixes to the Gluware platform to support enterprise customer automation needs
• Collaborate with Gluware Software Architects and Engineering on automation supporting reference architectures and vendor platforms
• Partner with Pre-Sales and Sales teams advising on automation approaches for enterprise campus and cloud architectures
• Stay current on major network and cloud vendor architectures products and evolving AI/ML capabilities relevant to network automation
• Leverage AI tools (e.g. Copilot Cursor LLM-assisted scripting) to accelerate development code review documentation and troubleshooting workflows
• Execute on directed strategy and solve challenges efficiently and effectively

Qualifications

• Masters degree in information technology Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience
• 23 years of hands-on network engineering experience (design implementation or operations)
• Strong scripting experience in JavaScript and/or Python
• Integration experience between software platforms using REST APIs
• Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants or LLM-based tooling in day-to-day engineering work
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills comfortable bridging network engineering and software teams
• Highly motivated able to grasp complex concepts and learn quickly
• Proven performance in a dynamic fast-growing organization
• Software development experience a plus

Nice to Have

• CCIE-level certification or advanced knowledge of multiple network vendor and cloud products
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure deployment (AWS Azure GCP or equivalent)
• 12 years in network engineering network design or network equipment design & development
• 5 years working with infrastructure in any capacity
• Hands-on implementation experience with multivendor routers/switches and technologies such as:
  • Data center architectures (EVPN/VXLAN ERB CRB)
  • Campus designs (Cisco Campus Fabric/SDA)
  • SD-WAN (Cisco/Viptela Versa VeloCloud Silver Peak)
  • Security products
• Experience with AI/ML-assisted network operations AIOps platforms or network observability tooling
• A builder mentality side projects home lab personal automation or hardware projects are a genuine plus

Required Experience:

Manager