CareerPlanSign in

Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $215,000–$215,000🗓 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the team building the scalable control plane for VPC networking to program multi-tenant virtual networks across large-scale GPU fleets.

Role type

Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Builds

Scalable VPC control plane services, network virtualization systems (OVN/OVS), and distributed control-plane services for multi-tenant GPU clusters.

Domain

Cloud networking, AI infrastructure, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Distributed systems engineering, SDN and network virtualization, team leadership, reliability engineering, API design, state reconciliation

Preferred skills

DPU/SmartNIC programming, cloud load balancing, network security policy engines, open-source contributions to OVN/OVS

Technologies

OVN, OVS, VXLAN, Geneve, BGP, EVPN, Go, Kubernetes, XDP, eBPF, DPDK

Responsibilities

Define roadmap for VPC control plane, design distributed control-plane services, support reliability engineering and incident response, mentor engineering team, partner with data-plane and cloud product teams

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership

Sourced via ashby · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.