The San Francisco Compute Company is hiring a Principal Network Engineer to design, provision, and manage the high-performance networks that underpin and interconnect our large-scale GPU clusters globally. You will build and automate these critical systems from the ground up.
What You'll Do
- Design, provision, and manage networks for large-scale GPU clusters globally.
- Stand up a 400GbE spine-leaf network from scratch, implementing eBGP.
- Automate network configuration to deploy it across a 20k node cluster.
- Work on network architecture design, automated fabric provisioning, and validation.
- Handle performance monitoring and optimization.
- Work on high performance distributed storage system interconnects.
- Work on globally distributed cross-datacenter interconnects.
What We're Looking For
- Experience with HPC and GPU network technologies including RoCEv2, InfiniBand, eBGP, EVPN/VXLAN, QoS, and ACLs.
- Experience architecting resilient high performance networks including fat-tree and multi-layer spine-leaf topologies, MLAG/LACP.
- Prior experience with network automation using Ansible, Bash, Python.
- Comfortable operating and have opinions about Arista, Cisco, Dell, Juniper, OCP, SONiC.
- Comfortable configuring NGFW's.
- Appreciate and value good documentation.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with and/or involvement with the Ultra Ethernet consortium.
- Experience with InfiniBand partitioning.
- Prior experience with GPU clusters (NVIDIA A100 or newer).
- Experience with high performance storage systems (WEKA, VAST, Ceph, etc.).
Technical Stack
- Protocols: RoCEv2, InfiniBand, eBGP, EVPN/VXLAN, QoS, ACLs
- Vendors & Platforms: Arista, Cisco, Dell, Juniper, OCP, SONiC
- Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
Benefits & Compensation
- Generous equity grant
- Competitive salary
- Visa Sponsorships
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- Medical, dental & vision insurance fully covered for employees and dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- 10+ observed holidays
- Paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
- Daily lunch covered
- Unlimited office book budget
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in San Francisco, CA.
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