Network Engineers

**About this role**:
We're a rapidly-expanding engineering organization actively designing and building a modernized approach to handling and optimizing our global network traffic and infrastructure. Our work will directly impact and influence the wider organization's ability to deliver key features and provide industry-leading VPN performance, while also enabling and participating in exciting new capabilities to be developed in the future.

**Role Responsibilities**:
As a member of this team, you'll be responsible for:

- **Designing and architecting** a modern globally-distributed network infrastructure as the Subject Matter Expert to meet the needs of the business and its customers.
- **Designing** and **creating** an observability methodology for the new globally-distributed network infrastructure.
- **Collaborating** with **Product Managers** and **Technical Owners**, as well as business functions to continuously refine scope and deliverables related to ongoing initiatives.
- **Working with 3rd Party Providers** on describing requirements, challenging their technical acumen, and performing due diligence on their offerings to ensure it meets our needs.
- **Working with other teams** to understand their objectives, requirements, and challenges, which will be used to influence the approach and design of our solutions.
- **Modeling, implementing, and proving** the proposed designs to ensure feasibility, alignment to objectives, and meeting expected outcomes.
- **Researching and defining** performance indicators best positioned to provide the visibility required to measure current performance, key improvements, cost association, and alignment with industry-standards.
- **Articulating and documenting** detailed information about plans, designs of network topologies, operational requirements, processes and other necessary data used to provide visibility and understanding within the business.
- **Enable** operations teams to get onboarded and actively support associated projects through **knowledge sharing** and technical sessions.

Your **success **will be evaluated by:

- **Satisfaction of internal customers**
- Enabling of new VPN/privacy features and capabilities to be developed
- Ease of operating and maintaining the infrastructure
- Cost and energy efficiency of the infrastructure
- Quality and detail of process and documentation
- Meeting objectives around **measurable performance gains** for defined network-based indicators such as latency and packet loss over various distances
- **Quality of outcomes** provided from partners and providers

**Role Requirements**:
Requirements for the role include:

- Expert in-depth experience with TCP/IP (v4 and v6), BGP and MPLS technologies
- Experience supporting large-scale peering/transit networks, with a sound knowledge of complex traffic engineering and Internet routing policies
- Extensive experience with and deep understanding of at least one of the major network hardware platforms, such as Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Nokia and other mainstream vendors
- Experience with designing and implementing colocation models for network and server stacks
- Experience with and understanding of network design, architecture, and implementation to meet defined requirements
- Strong ability to define and understand quality performance metrics for network infrastructure and traffic
- Proficiency in Linux or Unix-based systems
- Knowledge of tunneling technologies (i.e. IPSec, OpenVPN, GRE)

**Nice skills to have, but not required (if any)**:
Useful skills or knowledge to have include:

- Experience with designing or architecting very large networks, high availability, or global backbones is a major plus
- Previous industry experience at similar environments such as ISPs, IXPs, DCs, major IP carrier networks
- Experience with or working knowledge of SDN / SD-WAN is a plus
- Knowledge of modern observability stacks like Prometheus/Grafana
- Strong automation/scripting skills in Python, Go, or others
- Good understanding of best security practices:

- Threat modeling
- Network-based attack vectors (i.e. DDoS)
- Experience using agile software development practices