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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Network Production Engineer, Operations - **Company:** Crusoe Cloud - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $195,000.0 - $235,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Border Gateway Protocol, Common Lisp Object Systems, Data Centers, Monitoring of Systems, Multi-protocol Systems, Junos, Python (Programming Language), NetFlow, Network Monitoring, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Operational Databases, Overlay Transport Virtualization, Performance Tuning, Remote Direct Memory Access, Prometheus, Simple Network Management Protocols, Data Streaming, TCP/IP, Traffic Analysis, Cloud Platform System, High Performance Computing, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Juniper, Information Technology, Ddos - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-network-production-engineer-operations-crusoe-8029626 ## About the Role The ideal candidate is a seasoned network engineer with deep operational experience in large-scale environments who thrives in high-pressure situations and takes pride in keeping systems healthy. You'll contribute to defining SLIs and SLOs, improving observability tooling, building automation to reduce toil, and mentoring peers - all while serving as a key escalation point during high-severity network events., * 8+ years of production network engineering experience with a focus on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale or internet-scale environments. * Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools including streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes. * Experience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including familiarity with PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning. * Expert hands-on knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, and TCP/IP in production data center environments. * Proficiency with Arista (EOS) and Juniper (Junos) platforms in leaf-spine CLOS architectures across multi-vendor environments. * Python proficiency for writing auto-remediation scripts, diagnostic tooling, and operational automation. * Comfort operating large device fleets across multi-region environments with on-call responsibility, including experience as an escalation point during critical events. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Bonus Points: * Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU cluster environments. * Familiarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility. * Experience defining or contributing to SLIs and SLOs in partnership with SRE or product teams. * Exposure to operating 10K+ device fleets across hyperscale or cloud environments. * Background contributing to post-incident learning programs or operational excellence initiatives org-wide. ## Description * Production Reliability: Help own uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale. * Incident Response: Lead and contribute to end-to-end response for high-severity network events, including mitigation, stakeholder communication, and postmortem documentation. * Root Cause Analysis: Drive RCAs for production incidents, identify systemic issues, and author remediation plans tracked through to closure. * Observability Improvements: Contribute to and improve Crusoe's network monitoring stack using streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, and tools such as Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes. * Operational Standards: Author and maintain runbooks, escalation playbooks, and SOPs used across the operations team. * Operational Automation: Write Python-based tooling to reduce toil, automate common remediation workflows, and accelerate mean time to resolution. * SLI/SLO Contribution: Partner with Architecture and SRE teams to define and track network reliability metrics and service level objectives backed by real-time dashboards. * Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to Senior engineers and contribute to a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [An Applied Introduction to eBPF with Go](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1075-an-applied-introduction-to-ebpf-with-go) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Chrome for Sale? 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