Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, etc.)
5+ years experience in one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS or similar routing protocols - knowledge in typical configurations and performance tuning

Nice to Haves

5+ years experience understanding and mitigating network hardware and topology failures
Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6
Experience operating and designing SDN-based backbone networks
Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment
Experience with developing distributed systems and operating them at scale
Experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
Experience developing and understanding network device configuration for at least one vendor (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.)
Knowledge in routing and switching - hardware design and knowledge of forwarding and data planes

Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex networks and systems in the world
Participate in a weekly on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
Manage and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol backbone and edge networks
Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues
Define, develop, and optimize automated network monitoring systems to mitigate and remediate network events
Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, and drive the project directly and through influence of other teams
Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship