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# Senior System Engineer (CloudGate)

- **Company:** Nebius
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Databases, Data Warehousing, IPv4, Linux Kernel, Load Testing, Network Control, Network Connections, Network Load Balancing, Network Protocols, Network Switches, Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF), Microservices
- **Published:** July 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/4888838655

## About the Role

* Capable of writing reliable, high-performance code
 * Proficient in C and ready to learn Go/C++
 * Familiar with routing network traffic

It would be an added bonus if you had:

 * Worked with VPP, DPDK, and the Linux kernel network subsystem
 * Well-versed in virtual networks and overlays, SDN, NFV, DPI, network protocols, routing and tunneling, BGP, and MPL, Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

## Description

Our CloudGate team is responsible for the software side of external network connectivity in our Cloud. We're building a traffic delivery system for a variety of scenarios: IPv4 connectivity, Cloud Interconnect, Egress NAT, and a network load balancer. They serve tens of millions of packets per second.

We have a control plane microservice architecture with gRPC transport and our own Database as our data warehouse.

What we do:

 * Increase service scalability
 * Developing service functionality with support for service endpoints and expansion of health check types
 * Improve the internal architecture, optimizing interaction with related services

In this position, your responsibility will be to:

 * Developing a data plane for Nebius Cloud network services
 * Improve service performance and reliability
 * Automate complex cross-service interaction scenarios
 * Perform load testing for services


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