Top Network Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Own the architecture, security, segmentation, connectivity, and operation of a multi-region AWS network supporting regulated financial services. Lead cloud routing, partner VPN and Direct Connect connectivity, zero-trust access, Terraform-based infrastructure, observability, incident escalation, disaster recovery, and failover. Partner with Security on compliance and threat-model requirements, apply AI-native operational workflows, establish network standards, and mentor engineers. The role is hybrid, requiring three days onsite weekly in San Francisco or Culver City.

Supports and delivers managed network services for ISP and MSP customers. Responsibilities include troubleshooting and configuring SD-WAN, routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP, data circuits, Microsoft systems, and LAN environments; provisioning new customers; coordinating with vendors; resolving issues through completion; maintaining customer relationships; and mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes Versa Networks, firewall configuration, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, NAT, network design, and QoS.

Designs, deploys, configures, upgrades, and troubleshoots enterprise and data center networks. Supports Cisco, Juniper, InfiniBand, routing and switching, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VXLAN, spine-leaf architectures, and VMware networking. Performs migrations, infrastructure integration, physical data center deployment activities, cabling, hardware validation, and documentation while collaborating with server, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure teams. Travel to customer and data center locations is required as needed.

Build and optimize high-throughput, low-latency robot autonomy software using modern C++, GPUs, CUDA, multithreading, and hardware accelerators. Develop performance tooling and infrastructure for tracing, profiling, benchmarking, and metrics. Collaborate across perception, decision-making, trajectory generation, optimization, and control teams to remove compute bottlenecks, deploy software to production robots, and scale performance across fleets.

Own the design, deployment, reliability, security, and evolution of Cognition’s global wired, wireless, cloud-connected, and office networks. Responsibilities include network architecture, routing, wireless RF optimization, office delivery, monitoring, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, secure access, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, documentation, and incident response. The role partners across teams to improve network performance and customer experience in a rapidly scaling, onsite environment.

Design, deploy, and operate enterprise, campus, and cloud network infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Manage routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, VPNs, firewalls, segmentation, hybrid connectivity, monitoring, capacity planning, and high availability. Automate provisioning, troubleshoot complex network issues, maintain documentation, lead incident resolution, participate in on-call support, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with security, cloud, and IT teams.

Develop production-grade robotics software for motion planning, collision checking, trajectory optimization, and robot trajectory generation. Build tooling, infrastructure, logging, metrics, and data pipelines to measure and improve motion-planning reliability and performance. Collaborate with controls and product teams to test robot motions on hardware, integrate motion capabilities, and support scalable warehouse-automation systems.

Define and scale hardware architecture for complex robotics systems, driving standardization, modularity, reuse, and commercialization. Lead technical roadmaps, component research, design reviews, verification, DFMEA, design-for-manufacturing activities, and vendor interactions. Collaborate cross-functionally on electrical and mechanical system integration, regulatory qualification, product lifecycle management, and mass-production readiness. The role includes designing robotic end effectors and grippers and supporting customer and vendor projects requiring approximately 15% travel.

Develop and deploy full-stack robotics software spanning mechatronic hardware, robot control, motion planning, perception, computer vision, and machine learning. Design, test, debug, and improve safe, reliable robotic systems; develop controllers and planning algorithms for multi-robot and human-robot collaboration; manage production robotics data pipelines; and incorporate customer requirements into system design.

Develop and lead algorithms for robot task and motion planning, sequential decision-making, optimization, sensor fusion, state estimation, and robotics system modeling. Build, test, maintain, and deploy high-performance software in C++ and Python, integrate algorithms with existing infrastructure, collaborate with multidisciplinary robotics teams, and improve algorithmic rigor and performance for warehouse automation applications.

Design, deploy, and maintain resilient hybrid network infrastructure across data centers, remote sites, and public clouds. Manage routing, switching, WLAN, firewalls, WAN, VPN, secure connectivity, network automation, capacity planning, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation. Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and infrastructure teams, engage vendors, document operations, mentor teams, participate in on-call rotations, and support classified and unclassified environments.

Designs and deploys network infrastructure for office openings, relocations, and refreshes. Configures firewalls, switches, wireless networks, VPNs, SD-WAN, routing, and related services. Coordinates with ISPs, contractors, and vendors; troubleshoots connectivity issues; creates technical documentation; and supports cutovers, validation, handoff, and ongoing operations. The role owns technical project tasks from planning through completion and requires occasional off-hours work and regular travel.

Architect and develop the mechatronics software stack for intelligent warehouse robots. Build real-time, high-performance C++ applications interfacing with hardware devices, sensors, peripherals, and motor controls. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, debugging production systems, code review, mentoring, testing, performance optimization, evaluating technologies, and documenting best practices. The role requires expertise in distributed and real-time systems, industrial communication protocols, Linux, software toolchains, and production-quality robotics software.

Provides staff-level customer-facing technical support for complex multi-cloud networking and security issues. Serves as an escalation point, leading troubleshooting, packet analysis, root cause analysis, deployments, integrations, optimization, and upgrades. Collaborates with sales, solution engineering, and product engineering teams; identifies defects, validates fixes, and improves product quality. Develops technical documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides while advising leadership on recurring customer issues.

Designs, deploys, and troubleshoots enterprise cloud and hybrid network infrastructure across Azure, OpenShift, corporate offices, and security platforms. Administers FortiGate, FortiSASE, Cisco Meraki, Cloudflare, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers, and Kubernetes networking. Partners with application, security, and cloud teams on deployments and incident response, creates network documentation, manages monitoring and alerting, and performs changes under established procedures.

Support application teams by designing, configuring, and operating F5 and cloud application delivery platforms. Configure BIG-IP and F5 Distributed Cloud, manage DNS/GTM, tune WAF, troubleshoot connectivity and performance, onboard applications, automate repeated work with AI-assisted tooling, maintain runbooks, respond via ServiceNow, and participate in on-call rotation.

Design and build Python backend services and Terraform-based infrastructure automation for Box’s network platform. Create self-service workflows that replace manual processes, integrate observability and security guardrails, and improve reliability and developer experience. Collaborate with application, reliability, and platform teams, write tests and documentation, contribute to roadmap planning, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Designs, implements, optimizes, and sustains complex enterprise networks across on-premises and hybrid AWS environments. Responsibilities include routing and switching, firewalls, VPNs, wireless, network access control, cloud connectivity, incident investigation, upgrades, security remediation, documentation, automation, and root cause analysis. Provides technical leadership, customer collaboration, mentoring, and escalation support across multi-vendor infrastructure.

Designs, configures, troubleshoots, and optimizes secure network connectivity across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and legacy environments. Monitors network performance, resolves incidents, supports controlled infrastructure changes, maintains technical documentation, and prepares operational reporting. The role also supports resilient cloud integration, security controls, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and formal IT service-management processes.

Develop and operate Salesforce’s API Platform runtime infrastructure, including service-mesh proxies, routing, security policies, and high-availability network services. Build and maintain software using Go, Java, or C++ in Linux environments; manage Kubernetes clusters; automate cloud infrastructure; and apply CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, testing, telemetry, and operational best practices. Participate in on-call support and resolve complex production issues.

Serves as a customer-dedicated Resident Engineer and technical expert for HPE data center networking products. Designs and troubleshoots networks, provides break/fix support, advises on Junos configurations, tests and certifies Junos software and hardware, develops Python automation, reviews designs, supports cross-organizational projects, drives technology innovation, manages technical relationships, and mentors junior engineers.

Operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize global network infrastructure across datacenters and telco partners. Diagnose complex network incidents, drive root-cause analysis, implement long-term fixes, document configurations and procedures, coordinate cross-team remediation, and support network architecture, routing, and peering for LAN/WAN/wireless environments.

Owns reliability of large-scale GPU network fabrics supporting AI training and inference. Responsibilities include validating fabric designs, debugging RDMA/RoCEv2, NCCL collectives, PFC/ECN, NVLink/NVSwitch, and host-level networking; building instrumentation, dashboards, and alerts; troubleshooting across NICs, drivers, kernels, switches, and workloads; and driving end-to-end escalations with cloud networking providers.

Lead the architecture and evolution of edge-to-cloud connectivity for globally deployed humanoid robots. Design highly available, low-latency, secure network systems spanning 5G, private LTE, on-premise deployments, and cloud infrastructure. Engineer high-throughput telemetry and control traffic, hybrid connectivity tunnels, SDN and virtualization solutions, and fleet-wide observability. Serve as the technical authority for network architecture while partnering with cross-functional leaders. Perform advanced packet, Wi-Fi, RF, and network performance analysis.

Implement, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize F5 BIG-IP load-balancing infrastructure across distributed data centers and LAN/WAN environments. Manage virtual servers, SSL/TLS, iRules, certificates, HA failover, upgrades, monitoring, and network diagnostics. Administer Cisco, Juniper, and Infoblox infrastructure; support routing, switching, DNS, IPAM, documentation, security compliance, maintenance windows, and on-call escalations. The role requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for an agency security clearance.