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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Staff Network Engineer, Automation - **Company:** Crusoe's Inc - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $245,000.0 - $295,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Configuration Management, Code Review, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Jinja (Template Engine), Junos, Python (Programming Language), Network Configuration and Change Management, Netconf, Network Architecture, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Model-Driven Development, Grafana, Juniper, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Open Network Automation Platform - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8e12e820fe773897 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Telecommunications network device configuration?, * 12+ years of network engineering experience with a demonstrated focus on production network automation, platform engineering, and infrastructure as code in hyperscale or internet-scale environments. * Demonstrated Technical Leadership: Proven track record of designing and shipping network automation platforms used by a broader engineering organization, not scripts, but systems others build on. * Production-Quality Software Engineering: Mastery of Python or Go at a platform level, testable, CI/CD-integrated, and production-owned. You think like a software engineer who deeply understands networking. * Model-Driven Automation Fluency: Deep hands-on experience with gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, and YANG-modeled configuration and telemetry. You understand why model-driven automation is the only path to hyperscale. * Source of Truth Ownership: You have designed or owned a network source of truth platform (NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent) end to end, including the data model, integrations, and CI/CD pipelines that consume it. * Network Domain Depth: Strong hands-on expertise with Arista (EOS), Juniper (Junos), and NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in leaf-spine architectures. Solid knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP at DC fabric scale. * Event-Driven and Self-Healing Systems: Track record of building auto-remediation and closed-loop automation that detects, correlates, and resolves faults without human intervention. * Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience building streaming telemetry and observability platforms using gNMI collectors, Prometheus, Grafana, and equivalent tooling at fleet scale. * Hyperscale Operational Context: Comfort operating at scale across 10K+ network devices and multi-region fabric fleets, where the blast radius of a bug is measured in racks, not ports. * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or internet-scale environments ## Description * Own the Network Automation Platform: Define the technical roadmap for Crusoe's automation stack, from source of truth and config generation through day-2 operations, telemetry, and closed-loop remediation across our global fleet. * Build the Source of Truth: Design and own the authoritative data model (NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent) that drives all network configuration, validation, and operational state across teams. * Architect Intent-Based Configuration Systems: Lead the design and delivery of declarative, model-driven configuration pipelines using Python, Nornir, Ansible, Jinja2, and CI/CD, treating the network as code and making configuration drift impossible. * Drive Model-Driven Automation: Own Crusoe's gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategy for telemetry collection, configuration management, and state validation across multi-vendor fabrics (Arista, Juniper, NVIDIA/Mellanox). * Build Self-Healing Workflows: Design and ship event-driven, auto-remediation systems that detect faults, correlate telemetry, and resolve known failure modes without human escalation. * Define the Observability Platform: Set the technical direction for Crusoe's telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming gNMI. * Influence Architecture for Automability: Partner with Network Architecture to ensure designs are automation-first from day one, deployable, validatable, and operable programmatically at scale. * Mentor and Multiply: Provide technical guidance to Staff and Senior engineers. 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