Senior/Staff Network Development Engineer - Backbone 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!

Senior/Staff Network Development Engineer - Backbone Team

Location: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles 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.

Twitter is looking for a skilled and experienced Sr./Staff Network Development Engineer to join its Backbone Networking team, bringing unique expertise in building and maintaining global networks and a highly connected Edge to develop network products that enable Twitter's world wide reach.

Who You Are:

You will take pleasure building highly scalable, resilient, performant, and thoroughly tested products for Twitter’s global edge and backbone network. 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:

In this role, you will: 

• Direct involvement with deploying and operating networks within critical production environments. 

• Proficiency with multiple vendor operating systems (Arista, Juniper, Cisco)

• Network automation experience with Python

• 5+ years of experience with global backbone and edge networks

• Management and expansion of network interconnections with IP Transit vendors, CDN companies, IXP networks, etc. in our points of presence (PoPs) around the world

• Coordinate and deliver peering expansions for quick turnaround of capacity augmentation

• Establish and maintain relationship with peers through initial activations, upgrades, expansions, reconfigurations and terminations

• Establish peering strategy to provide low latency and high-speed internet access

• Peering monitoring and capacity planning for future growth and failure scenarios

• Define and execute strategies to localize traffic in our PoPs and optimize costs

• Support internet numbering administration public (i.e. addressing with RIRs, autonomous system numbers)

Qualifications:

• B.S. in network engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

• Proficient level understanding and hands-on experience with large-scale networking, including platforms, topologies, and routing protocols such as BGP, IS-IS and MPLS-TE++

• Track record of practical problem solving, excellent communication, and documentation skills.

• Expert knowledge of large backbone networks, peering and transit with advanced traffic engineering.

• 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.