Principal Network Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead network lifecycle management initiatives by defining technical objectives, delivery plans, and implementation procedures for large-scale network infrastructure projects.
• Translate high-level network architectures into detailed designs and deployment plans while ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Serve as the technical lead for moderately complex network projects, coordinating the efforts of multiple engineers across design, deployment, automation, and operational support.
• Design, implement, and support network solutions across data center, backbone, cloud, and service provider environments.
• Partner with service owners and infrastructure teams to ensure network solutions are fully integrated with monitoring, observability, automation, and operational support systems.
• Act as a Tier 2 and specialized escalation point for network incidents, driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex network issues and large-scale service-impacting events.
• Develop automation solutions, tools, and scripts to improve operational efficiency, network reliability, deployment consistency, and incident response.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of network automation frameworks and operational tooling.
• Collaborate closely with product teams, program managers, network leadership, and PMO organizations to align infrastructure capabilities with product and service requirements.
• Partner with vendor engineering teams and account managers to troubleshoot issues, evaluate new technologies, and drive operational improvements.
• Participate in hardware evaluations, RFQ/RFP processes, and adoption of new networking technologies and platforms.
• Drive technology decisions that support business, product, and service objectives.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, troubleshooting support, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation standards, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of experience.
• Strong experience with large-scale network operations, design, and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, and data center networking. Prion experience with RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand would be a plus.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies, building AI agents to automate.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry, and incident management.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to lead technical projects and influence outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.