Lead Principal Network Developer - Internet Edge

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Lead Principal Network Engineer - Internet Edge

Key responsibilities 

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for OCI’s Internet Edge, including internet transit, peering, private interconnects, internet exchanges, and connectivity to DDoS protection providers.
• Define routing policies and resilient connectivity designs that balance availability, performance, and cost across regions.
• Use traffic and performance data to guide peering, transit, and traffic engineering decisions and resolve complex routing issues.
• Plan for high-volume media workloads and other growing customer demand by forecasting traffic patterns and identifying internet connectivity and capacity needs.
• Partner with backbone and transport owners on capacity planning, edge deployments, and circuit changes.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and technical reviews from design through rollout, managing risks associated with high-impact changes.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex incidents, improve visibility into service health, and drive lasting fixes for recurring problems.
• Advise leadership on technical and provider choices, document designs and operational practices, and mentor engineers.

 

Core Responsibilities

• Planning and execution: Own technical plans for complex initiatives, anticipate dependencies and delivery risks, and adjust priorities as business needs change.
• Problem solving: Lead investigations into ambiguous connectivity and routing problems and drive solutions that prevent recurrence.
• Continuous improvement: Use service and traffic data to identify opportunities to improve resilience, performance, visibility, and cost efficiency.
• Partnership: Build alignment across engineering teams and with external network and service providers when needed to deliver Internet Edge objectives.
• Technical development: Share expertise, develop other engineers, and contribute to technical reviews and hiring decisions.

 

Proactively consults on the design and development of the most advanced network systems for large-scale enterprise, data center, or cloud-based environments, driving strategic technological advancements and collaborating with vendors and internal groups for alignment and validation. Leads the development and maintenance of the most advanced automation frameworks for testing and operations, pioneering automation of critical network tasks and ensuring comprehensive monitoring and reliability. Spearheads the development of new and existing test cases and strategies, leading organizational testing efforts, and driving compliance and risk mitigation through standardized qualification processes. Develops new and advanced systems for monitoring network health, leads critical incident response and escalations, formalizes issue resolution practices, and pioneers innovative tools for frontline support teams. Ensures milestone achievement aligns with organizational strategies, mentors cross-functionally, leads high-visibility incident response and root cause analysis (RCA), and proactively resolves networking standards misalignment. Analyzes network performance metrics, architects capacity for future demand, and writes design papers to drive organizational change.

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Recognized subject-matter expert driving strategy and execution for OCI’s Internet Edge, including internet transit, peering, traffic engineering, and DDoS connectivity to improve resilience, performance, and cost.