Network Development Engineer - Core Team

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 a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. 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

Location: San Francisco, 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. 

If you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!