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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN

San Francisco Office (Fremont St)💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Operate and scale a multi-tenant cloud networking platform and SDN infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based control plane services running on SmartNICs.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SDN/Networking)

Builds

Cloud networking platform, SDN infrastructure, Kubernetes control plane services, and internal tooling for system deployment and management.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, AI Cloud

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux systems administration, Kubernetes lifecycle management, distributed systems operations, networking stack knowledge, observability platforms, CI/CD and GitOps workflows, infrastructure automation (Python/Ansible), incident response, capacity planning.

Preferred skills

SDN operations (OpenStack Neutron, OVN, OVS), Go/Python software development, Terraform, Helm, SR-IOV, DPDK, cloud networking architecture design.

Technologies

Kubernetes, SmartNICs, Linux, Python, Ansible, OpenStack Neutron, OVN, OVS, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Operate and improve Kubernetes-based control plane services and dataplane software on SmartNICs; Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational toil; Collaborate with software and platform teams to improve service reliability; Deploy and maintain network monitoring and observability tools; Drive operational excellence through incident management and postmortems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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