Principal Cloud Network Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Cloud Network Engineer

Description

Lead end-to-end validation, reliability, and operational readiness for large-scale, multi-vendor cloud networks supporting AI infrastructure. Architect vendor-agnostic testing frameworks, automate network deployment and CI/CD workflows, and provide live-site incident leadership using deep telemetry and diagnostics. Define an AI strategy for network engineering to improve troubleshooting, automation, safety, observability, and measurable operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead end-to-end network validation across network operating systems, routing features, hardware platforms, configurations, and automation services for unit, integration, virtual lab, physical lab, canary, and production.
• Architect extensible, vendor-agnostic testing frameworks covering control-plane convergence, data-plane behavior, failure recovery, scalability, performance, interoperability, upgrade/downgrade safety, and platform stability.
• Establish risk-based quality standards and release-readiness criteria (test coverage, quality gates, regression requirements, reproducible lab environments, reusable tests) based on production incidents and defects.
• Provide technical leadership for complex network failures and live-site incidents using telemetry, packet captures, logs, protocol state, topology, and hardware signals.
• Define and improve operational readiness and reliability: telemetry, alerting, service-level indicators, troubleshooting, rollback, post-deployment validation, capacity analysis, self-healing mechanisms, and secure escalation processes.
• Architect and build network automation and CI/CD systems including source of truth, intent and metadata as code, automated validation, progressive deployment, health gates, rollback, drift detection, reconciliation, and operational automation.
• Lead cross-team architectural decisions and mentor engineers; establish standards for code quality, observability, testing, documentation, configuration management, and service ownership.
• Define and execute an AI strategy for network engineering, applying AI to improve efficiency, operations, troubleshooting, automation, reliability, and measurable outcomes.

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (details via the company careers pay information).