Senior Network Engineer - Backbone

Who We Are

Teraswitch is on a mission to provide the highest performance, lowest latency bare metal servers in the world. With 20 datacenter locations around the world, Teraswitch has served thousands of customers across 185 countries with our solutions. Founded by Brendan Mannella, Teraswitch is one of the largest privately-held infrastructure companies in the world.

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate global backbone infrastructure to ensure high performance and reliability.

• Partner with internal teams to gather requirements and leverage Teraswitch systems for insights to meet current and future product needs.

• Utilize Python and Ansible to automate customer impact mitigations and eliminate repetitive engineering tasks.

• Manage and troubleshoot cloud VPCs and connected network hardware to maintain seamless operations.

• Apply deep traffic engineering skills to optimize backbone network performance.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure efficiency and support Teraswitch's Bare Metal Platform.

• 5+ years of experience working on backbone network hardware and protocols (e.g., MPLS, RSVP-TE) in service provider or hyperscale environments.

• 5+ years of routing experience with BGP and IS-IS in backbone, peering, and transit areas, with expertise in traffic engineering.

• 3+ years of experience using Python scripting to automate deployments and break/fix tasks.

• 3+ years of experience managing and troubleshooting cloud VPCs and connected network hardware.

• Experience with Juniper, Cisco, and Arista hardware.

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, and OCI cloud environments.

• Expertise in capacity planning for large networks with minimal customer input.

• Proven success in on-call rotations and incident response in high-stakes environments.

• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in a fast-paced, ambiguous setting.