Senior Engineering Manager, Management Plane Systems

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, development, and production operation of the SDN Management Plane
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for network configuration and policy validation
• Design software systems for reconciliation between declared and actual network state
• Drive the design of network observability systems including streaming telemetry and anomaly detection
• Implement self-healing network capabilities and closed-loop automation
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior and staff-level software and network automation engineers
• Partner with Control Plane and Data Plane teams to ensure clean software interfaces

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in network software engineering or infrastructure platform engineering
• 5 to 7+ years managing senior and staff-level software engineers
• Proven track record of architecting and shipping production-grade automation and observability systems
• Strong fluency in network automation frameworks such as Ansible, Nornir, Napalm, or Salt
• Experience with network source-of-truth systems like NetBox or Nautobot
• Familiarity with network telemetry protocols including gNMI, gRPC, or OpenTelemetry
• Solid understanding of network protocols and SDN architectures including BGP, VXLAN, and EVPN
• Strong software engineering background with fluency in Python and/or Go

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying GenAI, ML, or AIOps techniques to network operations
• Background in AI infrastructure or GPU cluster networking environments
• Familiarity with RDMA/RoCE or high-performance networking
• P4 or programmable networking pipeline experience

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay and Restricted Stock Units
• Health insurance (HDHP, PPO, vision, dental) and HSA contributions
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
• Paid Parental Leave and generous PTO
• Tuition reimbursement and cell phone reimbursement
• $300/month commuter benefit