Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!
Network Development Engineer - Core Team
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Network Development Engineer - Core Team
Location: Palo Alto, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York or Austin
Salary Range: $154,000 to $259,000
Who We Are:
X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.
X is looking for a skilled and experienced Network Development Engineer / Senior / Staff Network Development Engineer to join its Core Networking team, bringing unique expertise in building and maintaining datacenter networks and developing network products that enable X's hyperscale computing.
Who You Are:
You will take pleasure building highly scalable, resilient, performant, and thoroughly tested networks for data centers that support 100K+ each. You will be a technical lead with the ability to collaborate on network design and develop solutions as a team. You will have strong verbal and written communications, strong ownership and the ability to work in multi-disciplined technical teams.
What You’ll Do:
Manage, plan, and design datacenter network capacity
Participate in technical reviews to improve network architecture
Perform network changes and optimizations across a multi-vendor, multiprotocol environment in data centers
Qualification of hardware and software
Proactive fault mitigation through performance, uptime, and anomaly tracking
Trouble resolution and escalation as part of a 12x7 on-call rotation
Diagnose and correlate network events, identify root causes, and develop remediation strategies.
Drive the development and implementation of operational procedures, documentation and event remediation strategies
Drive the evolution of the automation that supports our networks
Qualifications:
B.S. in network engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
Expert level understanding and hands-on experience with large-scale networking, including platforms, topologies, and routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, or IS-IS
Track record of practical problem solving, excellent communication, and documentation skills.
Strong knowledge of data center design and operation at scale, with a focus on BGP, Clos fabrics, and automation.
Working knowledge of large backbone networks, edge networking, and application layer protocols and services.
Fundamental understanding of unix/linux shells and scripting languages (python preferred)
Ability to learn new networking protocols, programming/scripting languages, and vendor operating systems as necessary.
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