Network Development Engineer - Core Team

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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!

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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.