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Roblox

Principal Network Engineer

San Mateo, CA · On-site

In this role, you are responsible for Engineering and Architecture of Roblox Backbone and Edge Network. You will ensure that we are making the right investments with our global expansion to provide a ...

Marencor

Optical Network Engineer

Fremont, CA · On-site

$110/hr

Deployment Engineer working on Backbone Network capacity deployment. This role will be focused on network deployment (IP, optical), and network operations (decommissioning, retrofitting, capacity ...

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

$76K - $105K/yr

Lead network engineering team and drive initiatives to scale our IP and Optical backbone while maintaining consistency and stability * Drive technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy and budget

Meta

Production Network Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$162K/yr

... backbone interconnects. In this role, you will drive strategy and execution across complex network ... Production Network Engineer Responsibilities: * Lead the design and delivery of large-scale ...

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Principal Network Engineer

San Mateo, CA • On-site

Roblox
Software Development • 51 - 200 employees
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Full-time

Re-posted 16 days ago

Job description

As a Principal Network Engineer, you will work cross-functionally to plan the growth of Roblox's global production network to support rapid user growth. In this role, you are responsible for Engineering and Architecture of Roblox Backbone and Edge Network. You will ensure that we are making the right investments with our global expansion to provide a great experience for all our users worldwide. We run services and a hosting platform with some unique complexities, so this role is an opportunity for the experienced network engineer to take on new challenges in addition to applying their existing expertise.

You Will:

  • Serve as a Principle Engineer for Roblox's Backbone Network.
  • Drive future design, deployment, and operations for Roblox's large-scale Network Infrastructure.
  • Engage in design, qualification, and validation of new technologies, and ensure new technologies are deployable at scale and are safely operable.
  • Collaborate with the Network Tooling Team to automate workflows and improve telemetry, observability, and alerting.
  • Work with net tools to automate existing workflows and improve our telemetry and alerting framework.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support the global network infrastructure 24x7.

You Have:

  • 8+ years of work experience responsible for designing, deploying and operating large-scale networks.
  • 5+ years of work experience designing and managing large scale Backbone and Edge Networks
  • Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE,).
  • Working knowledge of network protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS) and experience with IPv4 and IPv6.
  • Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware.
  • Experience in at least one programming language like Python, Go, C/C++ is a plus.
  • A track record of successful collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

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