Software Engineer - X Networking

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Who we are:

X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

What you'll do:

The Network Software, Services, and Automation (NSSA) team builds software, services, and frameworks which are used by our customers - X’s Network Engineers - to deploy, operate, and monitor X’s global network infrastructure. Our products span across all the aspects of network management: metric collection, configuration management & deployment, zero-touch provisioning, network monitoring, and alarming & auto-remediation, among others. We are involved in all aspects of network design with an automation-first approach to ensure the X production network is operated with the highest degree of reliability. We build extensible frameworks to make it possible for network engineers to develop their case-specific automation rapidly and reliably through our foundational tools and services.

At X, our small but fast-paced team values innovation, creativity, and a strong commitment to our mission. In this role, you will have a major impact on the architectures and designs of distributed software systems enabling X network engineering teams to deploy, monitor and operate X’s global network at scale. You will be driving automation software design and implementation, collaborating within and across teams. You will have strong verbal and written communications and a strong sense of ownership.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with our customers - network engineers - to understand their requirements and use cases

• Translate customer requirements into scalable, robust, and future-proof software solutions

• Prototype, Design and Implement software systems

• Write code that is clear, concise, maintainable, and performant

• Develop and maintain quality technical and non-technical documentation

• Operationally support, troubleshoot and improve the software systems our team has built

• Mentor and support your fellow engineers

• Multiply the effectiveness of the team by providing code and design reviews, setting the bar for quality high, and defining team’s software development best practices. 

Who you are

We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will have:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience 

• Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background

• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programing language 

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for software development life cycles

• Experience with business-critical distributed large-scale systems

• Strong desire for learning and growth

• Enjoy interacting with and helping internal customers

• Experience with network engineering, developing network automation, network controllers, or building automation systems for infrastructure is not required but would be beneficial