Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software
Core
Senior Staff Engineer serving as the final gatekeeper for Network Operating Systems (NOS) and feature certification before production deployment, designing test methodologies and validating complex network architectures.
Role type
Senior Staff Individual Contributor (Network Platform Engineering)
Builds
Network certification pipelines, staging topologies, and production-ready deployment playbooks for service provider and data center networking.
Domain
Network Infrastructure & Software Engineering (Service Provider & Data Center)
Required skills
Network automation (Python, Ansible, PyATS), Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS), MPLS (LDP, RSVP, Segment Routing), Overlay technologies (VXLAN, EVPN), Network virtualization (CNF, VNF, DPDK), Test equipment (Spirent, Ixia), CI/CD pipelines, Cloud networking (AWS VPC, Transit Gateway), LLMs for test automation
Preferred skills
Relevant industry certifications (Cisco CCIE, Juniper JNCIE, AWS SA), Experience with Docker/Kubernetes clusters
Technologies
Python, Ansible, PyATS, Netmiko, REST API, NETCONF, RESTCONF, Gnmi, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Spirent, Keysight/Ixia, Bird, Nokia, Juniper, Cisco, Arrcus
Responsibilities
Design and execute comprehensive test plans to certify new NOS releases and features; Build and maintain large-scale staging environments replicating complex topologies; Conduct interoperability, scalability, and high-availability testing across multi-vendor environments; Collaborate with network vendors to track bugs and validate hotfixes; Develop safe deployment playbooks and rollback strategies; Research emerging network technologies and evaluate vendor roadmaps
Seniority
Senior Staff, high-impact individual contributor with cross-functional influence
