Network Automation Engineer

About the Company

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, aiming to deliver hundreds of GWs of compute by designing, building, and operating data centers. The company focuses on speed, scale, and rethinking every layer of the stack to support the frontier of AI.

Responsibilities

• Own network fleet health end-to-end, including real-time monitoring, alerting lifecycles, and dashboards.
• Build active debugging tooling for link diagnostics, remote command execution, and repair visualization.
• Automate the network repair pipeline from detection through parts management and return to service.
• Develop frameworks for network qualification and validation to gate new sites and hardware.
• Ensure end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operation of the datacenter network at scale.

Requirements

• Experience developing automation tools in Go and Python.
• Proficiency with link diagnostics and optical networks.
• Understanding of network monitoring protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, and SONiC.
• Experience shipping production network tooling or automation used by other teams.
• Fluency with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
• Ability to manage incidents and perform systemic postmortem analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RMA and repair lifecycle automation.
• Knowledge of large-scale datacenter fabric including BGP, ECMP, and spine-leaf architectures.
• Experience with out-of-band network management.