Key skills
PHPGoRustSQLAIKubernetesLeadershipCommunicationNetwork SecurityFirewall
About this role
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. They are seeking a Senior Engineer, Cloud Networking to architect and lead the evolution of their global cloud networking platform, focusing on scalable, reliable, and secure network services.
Responsibilities:
- Work on technical design for next-gen cloud networking: VPC, security groups, gateways, routing domains
- Drive implementation of control/data plane features and network orchestration
- Manage services like BGP peering, tenant isolation, and network policy enforcement
- Prototype and validate new capabilities at scale
- Support production systems and incident response
- Extend Vultr’s control plane to integrate networking features
Requirements:
- 5+ years in infrastructure, network engineering, or hosting environments
- Experience with virtual networking (public/private cloud), SDN, VXLAN/EVPN
- Strong knowledge of BGP, L2/L3 routing, Linux and Kubernetes networking
- Network automation and observability experience
- Proficiency in Go or Rust; familiarity with PHP and SQL a plus
- Clear communication across engineering and leadership
- High-performance networking hardware (Broadcom DNX, XGS, DPUs, SmartNICs, etc.)
- Legacy system modernization
- Network security or multi-tenant firewall experience
- Cloud provider or hyperscaler background