Top Network Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

Leads a team of 4–6 senior network engineers while providing hands-on support for complex customer environments. Oversees daily operations, escalations, incident and major incident management, root cause analysis, preventive measures, performance reviews, on-call scheduling, and workload distribution. Troubleshoots and optimizes Cisco, Nexus, Meraki, Palo Alto, Check Point, F5, and SAN technologies, while supporting monitoring, automation, patching, firmware updates, and hardware lifecycle management.

Own and operate a globally distributed VPN network, AWS control plane, backend infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve reliability, security, automation, observability, CI/CD, deployment safety, and cost efficiency across multiple providers. Troubleshoot production incidents, participate in 24/7 on-call, manage networking and VPN technologies, and replace manual operational processes with tested automation. Partner with engineering and product teams while ensuring high uptime, connection success, performance, and compliance.

Design, implement, and maintain MEMX’s low-latency trading network infrastructure. Configure network devices using Ansible and Python, monitor alerts, resolve incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and support customer connectivity turn-ups and tickets. Analyze and validate new products, implement secure end-user solutions with security teams, and coordinate with data center and circuit providers. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, routing protocols, multicast, network operating systems, timing protocols, packet analysis, firewalls, and optical networking.

Designs, implements, manages, and supports secure, highly available enterprise networks across global sites. Responsibilities include routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, SD-WAN, VPNs, cloud networking, automation, monitoring, lifecycle management, and advanced troubleshooting. The role serves as a senior escalation point, leads major incident responses, performs root cause analysis, and collaborates with infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and operations teams on network reliability and modernization.

Own end-to-end network reliability across data centers, AWS, and GCP, including routing, switching, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, VPNs, circuits, and cross-connects. Automate network configuration with Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, CI validation, and IPAM. Engineer failover, observability, security hardening, client connectivity, and Kubernetes ingress while participating in an interrupt-contained on-call rotation.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Provides senior-level technical support for enterprise customers using Aviatrix’s multicloud networking and security products. Responsibilities include troubleshooting complex network environments, resolving high-priority issues, coordinating with engineering and sales, reporting product issues, improving support documentation and workflows, supporting production environments, and mentoring cloud network engineers. The role requires expertise in routing, BGP, IPsec VPN, Linux, networking products, cloud platforms, scripting, and automation.

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered B2B SaaS products across frontend, backend, and AI. Own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, ensure maintainability, mentor teammates, and inform roadmap and implementation decisions.

Designs, implements, and supports complex telecommunications transport and network infrastructure. Responsibilities include architecture, high-availability design, troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization, documentation, KPI definition, project coordination, escalation management, and technical planning. The engineer provides final design specifications, supports long-term architecture, mentors junior staff, and delivers technical direction across multiple departments. Occasional travel, shift work, and after-hours emergency support may be required.

Design and implement user interface components and backend workflows for satellite network management software. Collaborate with network operations and multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, architecture, and software designs. Develop tools for managing satellite and ground networks, rapidly prototype user experiences, and independently write and test software from scratch.

Design and implement user interface components and backend workflows for satellite network management software. Collaborate with network operations and multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, architecture, and designs, while building software for satellite and ground network management. Interns are expected to rapidly prototype, develop, and test software from scratch.

Design and implement user interface components and backend workflows for satellite network management software. Collaborate with network operations and multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, architecture, and software designs. Build tools for managing satellite and ground networks, rapidly prototype user experiences, and independently develop and test software from scratch. This is a twelve-week associate role for students who have completed or will complete a bachelor's degree.

Design and implement user interface components and backend workflows for satellite network management software. Collaborate with network operations teams and multidisciplinary partners to build and manage satellite and ground networks, while contributing to software requirements, architecture, prototyping, testing, and user experience design.

Staff Network Engineer responsible for designing, integrating, automating, and supporting complex on-premises and multi-cloud network environments. The role leads network and cloud connectivity projects, develops infrastructure-as-code and automation, troubleshoots high-severity incidents, optimizes network performance and costs, maintains engineering documentation, and mentors network engineers. Responsibilities include routing, switching, security, load balancing, observability, capacity modeling, cloud integration, and 24x7 mission-critical support.

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.

Provides advanced network engineering and firewall expertise in a managed services environment. Owns complex incident resolution, root cause analysis, network project delivery, solution design, implementation, change validation, Palo Alto configuration, network hardening, legacy environment optimization, documentation, and technical mentorship. The role is remote from Brazil and requires fluent English, extensive enterprise networking experience, and deep Palo Alto Networks expertise.

Ensure reliability, scalability, and usability of network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. Define requirements and SLOs, build automation and CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with dev/QA to improve code and stability, troubleshoot complex network issues (on-call), and mentor teammates while driving architectural standards.

Designs, implements, supports, and optimizes high-availability IP/MPLS, carrier Ethernet, cellular, and video transmission networks. Responsibilities include capacity planning, bandwidth forecasting, outage troubleshooting, network monitoring, infrastructure documentation, escalation management, project coordination, and continuous improvement. The role provides technical direction to junior engineers and technicians, supports telecommunications engineering projects, and applies standards for availability, redundancy, scalability, efficiency, and security.

Lead the technical direction of Attentive’s compute and networking platform. Build reusable AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes systems, APIs, and self-service tools while improving reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and developer productivity. Own complex cross-team initiatives from design through production, diagnose sophisticated infrastructure issues, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, and establish effective AI-assisted development practices.

Provides enterprise technical leadership for cloud and network modernization across DoD environments. Engineers multi-cloud integrations, secure connectivity, cloud access points, routing and switching, data center technologies, F5 ADC solutions, and Zero Trust architectures. Leads migration planning, compliance with DoD security frameworks, Tier 3/4 troubleshooting, technical documentation, executive recommendations, and cross-disciplinary initiatives. The hybrid role supports DLA and requires periodic onsite work for NIPR/SIPR operations.

Own the architecture, delivery, roadmap, and operational health of a network solutions engineering team. Partner with Product to scope and deliver predictable software, maintain high engineering and DORA standards, apply AI-assisted development, manage dependencies, participate in on-call, handle incidents, develop engineers, and lead hiring. The role remains hands-on, requiring recent coding, code review, technical decision-making, and ownership of networking products including load balancing, switching, firewalls, VPN, and VPC.

Designs, deploys, automates, and operates large-scale NVIDIA InfiniBand fabrics for GPU clusters. Manages UFM, switches, firmware, congestion control, routing, QoS, observability, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and incident response. Collaborates with AI platform, GPU infrastructure, storage, and systems teams to build reliable AI Factory environments.

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 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.