Top Network Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead infrastructure engineering workstreams to design, operate, and modernize network and cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoot moderate-complexity problems, drive architecture and automation, partner with risk/compliance, mentor engineers, and apply AI-assisted tooling while ensuring security, resiliency, and auditability.

Own the network architecture and standards for a multi-cloud generative AI platform deployed across AWS, Azure, GCP, and customer environments. Design VPCs, routing, private connectivity, DNS, ingress, egress, edge configurations, Kubernetes networking, service mesh, and network policies. Establish repeatable customer-boundary connectivity and access patterns, review proposed solutions, partner on security and compliance, debug hybrid-cloud incidents, and document operational standards. The role serves as the central networking authority across regulated and air-gapped deployments.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Designs, deploys, and operates scalable cloud networking infrastructure, including VPC/VNet architectures, hybrid connectivity, transit topologies, edge networking, DNS, and security controls. Builds infrastructure using Terraform, troubleshoots routing and packet-level issues, and supports Kubernetes networking. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, conducts design and code reviews, mentors junior engineers, and delivers reliable production systems across major cloud providers.

Designs, implements, supports, and optimizes high-availability telecommunications network infrastructure, including IP/MPLS, carrier Ethernet, cellular data, and video transmission systems. Responsibilities include capacity planning, bandwidth forecasting, outage troubleshooting, monitoring, documentation, project coordination, escalation management, and network security. The role also provides technical direction to junior engineers and technicians, supports small projects, and contributes to strategic infrastructure planning and continuous improvement.

Lead end-to-end external connectivity strategy: manage carrier relationships, procure and track circuits, ensure diverse OSP fiber paths, coordinate fiber builds, plan backbone/POP placement, support peering/interconnection, and provide connectivity intelligence for datacenter site selection and capacity forecasting.

Own design, deployment, and operation of corporate and wireless networking across multi-site offices and data center-adjacent environments. Design Wi‑Fi for challenging RF environments, validate with surveys, run automation-first corporate network operations (config-as-code, zero-touch), onboard new sites, and ensure reliable remote access and campus LAN connectivity.

Own and operate low-latency network infrastructure for trading systems, including colocation connectivity, exchange feeds, L2/L3 topology, BGP and OSPF routing, PTP synchronization, firewall policies, automation, packet analysis, documentation, and incident response. The role involves designing infrastructure from scratch, managing vendors, building Python tooling, and participating in on-call support within a small network engineering team.

Design, implement, and maintain low-latency exchange network infrastructure. Configure network devices using Ansible and Python, monitor alerts, resolve incidents, perform root-cause analysis, support customer connectivity and turn-ups, validate products, engineer secure solutions, and coordinate with data center and circuit providers.

Designs, implements, and maintains cloud and on‑prem network infrastructure with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible), supports AWS environments, builds CI/CD pipelines, authors technical documentation, troubleshoots escalations, and collaborates with Cloud Architects and product teams in a remote Agile environment.

Delivers post-sales network engineering services, including requirements assessment, solution design, equipment staging, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and client coordination. Manages complex data center networking environments involving routers, switches, firewalls, load balancing, DMZs, DDI, routing protocols, and modern switching architectures. Collaborates with clients, vendors, Smart Hands, project managers, and internal teams to meet service-level objectives, resolve issues, improve deployment processes, and enhance service delivery.

Designs, implements, and supports complex high-availability telecommunications network infrastructure. Leads architecture and long-term planning, optimizes performance and scalability, manages escalations, defines operational KPIs, and maintains documentation and diagrams. Serves as project engineer and subject-matter expert for major initiatives, coordinating across departments and engineering disciplines. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers and technicians, and ensures reliable, secure integration of network services within demanding operational environments.

The Network Engineer will focus on working with Juniper MX routers and JUNOS firewalls, requiring 4+ years of experience and relevant certifications.

The Network Engineer will deploy and validate AI datacenter network infrastructure, manage hardware logistics, troubleshoot issues, and provide operational support while ensuring production standards.

The Network Engineer plans, tests, documents, and implements network hardware, software, configuration, routing, and interoperability changes across DLA WAN, DISN, cloud, core, and remote networks. Responsibilities include developing implementation and assessment plans, conducting laboratory evaluations, creating network designs and maps, preparing test and after-action reports, defining requirements, analyzing telecommunications needs, supporting network services, and recommending routing and configuration improvements. The role requires hybrid onsite work and SIPR-related support.

Own and debug low-level GPU network fabric (RDMA/RoCE, NVLink/NVSwitch) for large-scale training/inference. Build host instrumentation, triage cross-cloud networking issues, and drive escalations with cloud providers to maintain interconnect reliability at scale.

Support enterprise, data center, and lab network infrastructure in production environments. Execute network moves, adds, and changes; deployments; migrations; maintenance; upgrades; troubleshooting; cutovers; and lifecycle activities. Maintain network documentation and operational records, validate post-change performance, follow standardized change procedures, independently resolve assigned work, and collaborate remotely with engineering stakeholders while escalating technical or access blockers.

The Senior Lead Network Engineer will manage and enhance network infrastructure, conduct assessments, implement security measures, and provide guidance on design and best practices.

Monitor and maintain enterprise network infrastructure in a Tier 1 Network Operations Center. Investigate and resolve alerts, incidents, and service interruptions; provide network support; document troubleshooting and resolutions; escalate complex issues; implement approved changes; and coordinate with engineering, IT operations, field services, and vendors. The role operates in a fast-paced 24/7 environment with a strong focus on reliability, customer experience, and technical growth.

Manage and optimize high-bandwidth, low-latency VFX network infrastructure supporting render farms, storage, cloud rendering, artist collaboration, and remote workstations. Configure AWS Deadline Cloud, troubleshoot Maya and Arnold rendering, build asset-transfer and per-show environment systems, optimize Linux and Windows pipelines, and document architecture and procedures. The role requires strong Python and Bash scripting, networking, storage, systems administration, render-farm, and VFX pipeline expertise.

Lead global enterprise and cloud network architecture and roadmap. Design, deploy, and operate highly available, secure hybrid LAN/WAN/Wi‑Fi/VPN infrastructures across multi‑cloud and on‑prem environments. Configure and troubleshoot multi‑vendor hardware, manage international connectivity, automate with infrastructure-as-code, respond to incidents, mentor engineers, and support global office rollouts and upgrades.

Design, deploy, and operate enterprise network infrastructure across data centers and cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure). Manage VPCs, VPNs, BGP, F5 BIG-IP, hybrid connectivity, and observability. Build IaC and automation with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Ansible. Maintain monitoring, documentation, and participate in on-call support for critical incidents.

The Senior Network Engineer manages enterprise network design, implementation, and operations, focusing on infrastructure, VoIP, security, troubleshooting, and project management.

Design, operate, and improve secure, scalable enterprise networks across offices, campuses, PoPs and cloud. Own production operations and incident response, build observability and automation (IaC), implement routing/switching/wireless/firewall/NAC/segmentation, lead migrations and site launches, and partner with security and stakeholders to apply Zero Trust and measurable reliability outcomes.

Designs, implements, secures, and supports hybrid enterprise networks across Azure, AWS, on-premises data centers, offices, and remote locations. Responsibilities include cloud connectivity, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, monitoring, troubleshooting, Zero Trust controls, high availability, disaster recovery, and Infrastructure as Code automation. The engineer leads migration and modernization initiatives, coordinates with vendors, supports office deployments, documents network environments, participates in on-call support, and mentors junior staff.