Network Engineer

The role

You will design, operate, and improve global networks connecting offices, labs, campuses, and cloud environments. The role involves strategic platform engineering and production operations including incident response and automation.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable enterprise networks.
• Set strategic direction through architecture, standards, and roadmaps.
• Own production operations including on-call, incident response, and escalations.
• Use incident learning and telemetry to eliminate recurring failure modes through automation.
• Develop dashboards, telemetry, alerts, and health checks.
• Implement and operate routing, switching, wireless, WAN, Internet edge, firewall, NAC, and segmentation.
• Lead network changes, migrations, refreshes, and site launches.
• Partner with security and identity teams to apply Zero Trust principles and access controls.
• Balance long-term platform improvements with urgent operational priorities.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise networks using platforms such as Cisco IOS, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, Arista, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong routing and switching fundamentals, including BGP, OSPF, VLAN/VRF design, WAN, Internet edge, and high-availability patterns.
• Production troubleshooting experience across packets, logs, telemetry, configurations, circuits, and physical infrastructure.
• Experience with network observability using tools and protocols such as SNMP, syslog, NetFlow, packet capture, ELK, Grafana, or comparable platforms.
• Strong network security fundamentals, including ACLs, firewalls, VPN, 802.1X/NAC, device profiling, segmentation, and least privilege.
• Ability to automate infrastructure using a modern programming language and tools such as Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, Git, and CI/CD.
• Experience with enterprise wireless and at least one cloud or hybrid connectivity environment.
• Clear communication, sound operational judgment, and the ability to own outcomes while partnering across technical and business teams

Nice to have

• Experience shaping a multi-quarter network roadmap while supporting production operations and changing delivery needs.
• Experience with optical transport and carrier services, including DWDM, wavelengths, dark fiber, DIA, or similar technologies.
• Experience with cloud and virtual WAN architectures such as Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, or comparable services.
• Experience with campus, data center, colocation, or PoP architecture, interconnects, high-availability design, and operational handoff.
• Experience building internal platforms, self-service workflows, or AI-assisted automation that measurably reduces operational toil.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.