Position Overview
The Senior Staff Network Engineer - Storage & High-Performance Networking will design, engineer, configure, automate, and troubleshoot high performance network fabrics that support distributed storage and private cloud infrastructure.
This role requires a hands on technical subject matter expert who can analyze latency, throughput, packet flow, resiliency, security, and infrastructure performance while helping define the technical architecture.
Note: This is a W2 only role — C2C, C2H will not be considered
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer low latency, high throughput data center networks for storage and private cloud environments.
- Configure and support Nvidia and Mellanox switching technologies and Nvidia ConnectX series network interface cards.
- Design and support N+2 and N+3 redundant network environments with a focus on availability and operational resilience.
- Implement and troubleshoot routing and traffic management using Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service.
- Integrate network fabrics with NVMe over TCP, distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, and private cloud platforms.
- Automate network configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes through infrastructure as code and related tooling.
- Troubleshoot Linux networking, packet flow, latency, throughput, and broader infrastructure performance issues.
- Partner with Security Engineering teams to apply network security principles, segmentation, and appropriate controls.
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and provide hands on support within large scale infrastructure environments.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Expert level experience designing and engineering high performance data center networks.
Strong hands on experience with Nvidia and Mellanox networking and switching technologies.
Strong understanding of low latency, high throughput networking and its application to storage environments.
Expert level knowledge of storage centric networking protocols and technologies, including NVMe over TCP and NVMe over Fabrics.
Strong knowledge of Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service.
Strong understanding of Software Defined Networking concepts and architectures.
Strong understanding of networking within distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, private cloud, or similar environments.
Strong Linux networking knowledge and experience troubleshooting issues within Linux based infrastructure.
Experience designing and supporting N+2 and N+3 redundant and highly available network environments.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills related to network latency, throughput, packet flow, and infrastructure performance.
Demonstrated ability to automate network configuration, deployment, monitoring, or operational processes.
Strong understanding of network security principles and the ability to work effectively with Security Engineering teams.
Experience working with private cloud, data center, or other large scale infrastructure environments.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with SONiC or a similar open networking operating system or Software Defined Networking technology.
Experience with Ceph or another distributed or software defined storage platform.
Experience integrating high performance network fabrics with Ceph, Nutanix, OpenStack, or Kubernetes.
Production experience with NVMe over TCP or NVMe over Fabrics.
Experience with network automation and infrastructure as code tooling.
Experience supporting Dell R660, Dell R760, or similar high performance server platforms equipped with Nvidia ConnectX series network interface cards.
Exposure to public cloud networking or private cloud infrastructure.
Experience with security controls and network segmentation within storage and data center environments.
Tools and Technologies
Nvidia and Mellanox switching technologies
NVMe over TCP and NVMe over Fabrics
Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service
Software Defined Networking and SONiC
Linux networking
Network automation and infrastructure as code tooling
Ceph, Nutanix, OpenStack, and Kubernetes
Dell R660 and Dell R760 servers with Nvidia ConnectX series network interface cards