alkira
Software Engineer - Datapath
San Jose, California
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About the role
- SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATAPATH Turn a customer's intent into a live, multi-cloud network - automatically, anywhere in the world - and learn the entire stack while you do it.
Requirements
- You'll thrive here if you have:
- Comfort on Linux - the shell, processes, logs, and the everyday networking tools.
- Familiarity with firewalls, load balancers, and similar network services.
Nice to have
- Turn a customer's intent into a live, multi-cloud network - automatically, anywhere in the world - and learn the entire stack while you do it.
- When a company connects its data centers, clouds, and offices on Alkira, our team is what makes it happen.
- The customer tells us what they want - connect these networks, across these clouds, with these policies - and we turn that into a real, working network in minutes instead of weeks, automatically.
- Using a mix of Ansible, Python, and Go, we set up the networking stack on our Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs) and run the workflows that keep it healthy - including tricky operations like safely restarting a node.
- Our team spans the US and India, and above all we make sure every customer network comes up correctly and reliably, across every cloud.
- Automate the cloud.
- Write the Ansible playbooks that provision infrastructure and stand up network services across AWS, Azure, and GCP - VPCs/VNets, subnets, tunnels, NAT, routing, and security policy.
- Bring up new capabilities.
Skills
- At Alkira, you'll help shape the next chapter of networking:
- cloud-like consumption, private-network performance, and total control across the enterprise.
Compensation
- The salary range for this position is $125,000 -$150,000 USD.
- Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education and location.
Company info
- WHO YOU ARE We're looking for a well-rounded Software Engineer with a basic grounding in networking technologies.
- WHY YOU'LL GROW FAST HERE The orchestration layer touches every part of the system - clouds, Linux, the networking stack, and the data path next door.
- ON-CALL On-call is a mandatory part of this role.
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