Network Engineer, Connectivity & Strategy

The role

This person will own external connectivity including carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects. They will plan backbone capacity between sites and negotiate technical terms with providers.

What you will do

• Own external connectivity including carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet
• Plan backbone capacity between sites years ahead of the traffic that will fill it
• Negotiate technical terms with carriers and fiber providers alongside sourcing
• Own the connectivity roadmap regarding diversity, latency, and cost

Required qualifications

• Engineered carrier and long-haul connectivity at scale
• Procured dark fiber and lit services and know where the contracts hide risk
• Plan capacity with data and buy ahead of need
• Hold carriers to SLAs with escalation paths built by yourself

Nice to have

• Long-haul and subsea systems
• DWDM
• Peering strategy
• Fiber route analysis

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.