alkira

Software Engineer - Datapath

San Jose, California

Sponsorship not specified$125k-$150kDetected 13 days ago

PythonNode.jsData StructuresAWSGCPAzureAnsibleLinuxTCP/IPFirewallSD-WANProblem Solving

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.
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.

You use AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code - we lean on them to build workflows, write debug tooling, and move faster across the entire software development lifecycle.
Experience building CLIs, task runners, or automation that runs at scale.

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.

This is a hybrid work environment that requires onsite at San Jose, CA HQ on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Automate the cloud.
Build the engines.
Bring up new capabilities.

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.

You'll join the orchestration on-call rotation and help debug and resolve production provisioning issues, with coverage coordinated across the US and India.
It's also where a lot of the deepest learning happens - there's no faster way to understand a system than to keep it running.

one programmable platform to connect, secure, and operate every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload.
Founded by Amir and Atif Khan, the creators of Viptela and pioneers of the SD-WAN market, Alkira was built to radically simplify how enterprises deploy and manage network infrastructure.
Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world's largest enterprises.
Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks.
Teams can build and scale connectivity on demand, apply consistent security and segmentation, and gain visibility across distributed environments from one place.
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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