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Backbone and Peering Architect

Dallas, TX💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and reference architecture for HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, cloud service provider on-ramps, and customer peering to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity.

Role type

Senior IC network architect (data center backbone & peering)

Builds

HPC data center interconnects, WAN solutions, cloud interconnects, and multi-tenant secure networking patterns

Domain

High-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure and carrier networking

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

data center fabric design (leaf-spine, Clos, EVPN, VXLAN), WAN and peering strategy, routing and traffic engineering, capacity planning, network security architecture, digital twin modeling, HPC workload support

Preferred skills

GPU-accelerated environment experience, AI/ML infrastructure support, infrastructure monitoring, simulation models

Technologies

EVPN, VXLAN, Clos, leaf-spine

Responsibilities

Own architecture of data center backbone interconnect (DCI), design reference architectures for WAN and cloud interconnects, define standards for routing and failover, align design with capacity planning, develop multi-tenant secure networking patterns, contribute to digital twin models

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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