Meta
Infrastructure
Network Engineering
Network Production Engineer - Core Networking, Backbone Responsibilities
- Propose, describe and develop designs to scale Express Backbone to meet the business demand.
- Participate and drive migration processes from one design to the next iteration through cross-functional engagement.
- Perform analytical and data-driven dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.
- Manage and maintain multi-vendor relationship and provide quality feedback to drive vendor's development.
- Contribute to team growth and development through new hire onboarding and peer mentorship.
- Help with the process of finding a root cause for the Express Backbone issues.
- Be an escalation contact for high-impact, high-priority incidents.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, etc.).
- 5+ years of experience in one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS or similar routing protocols - knowledge in typical configurations and performance tuning.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience understanding and mitigating network hardware and topology failures.
- Proficient level knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6.
- Experience operating and designing Software Defined Networking-based backbone networks.
- Knowledge in routing and switching - hardware design and knowledge of forwarding and data planes.
- Experience developing and understanding network device configuration for at least one vendor (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.).
- Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment.
- Experience with developing distributed systems and operating them at scale.
- Experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and Network Management Systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems.
- Experience learning software, frameworks, and APIs.
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