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Staff Network Production Engineer, Deployment

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $165,000–$165,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Execute physical and logical network deployments for new data centers and edge sites, ensuring switches, routers, and fiber links are deployed to spec and handed off to operations.

Role type

Senior Network Production Engineer (Deployment)

Builds

Global high-performance compute (HPC) and GPU-based AI infrastructure networks

Domain

Data Center Operations / Network Engineering / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale data center deployment, structured cabling (SMF/MMF, MPO/MTP), optical transceivers (400G/800G), Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms, BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, LLDP, Python, Ansible, OTDR diagnostics, link-layer troubleshooting

Preferred skills

Hyperscale/ISP experience, GPU cluster networking (RDMA/RoCE, InfiniBand), network observability (Prometheus, Grafana), vendor certifications (CCNP, JNCIP, Arista ACE), mentoring

Technologies

Arista, Juniper, NVIDIA, Mellanox, Python, Ansible, OTDR, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Execute on-site and remote network deployments from rack-and-stack to cutover; Implement architecture designs into deployment steps (cable maps, configs, runbooks); Write and maintain Python/Ansible automation and ZTP workflows; Support burn-in and site acceptance testing (SAT); Configure and troubleshoot leaf-spine fabrics; Coordinate with vendors on physical layer issues; Diagnose physical/link-layer problems using OTDRs and packet captures; Track hardware inventory and capacity; Participate in on-call rotation for production incidents

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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