Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Networking

Vultr provides high-performance, affordable cloud infrastructure for enterprises and AI innovators worldwide. The company is seeking a Senior Engineer, Cloud Networking to architect and lead its global cloud networking platform, designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure networking services. The role involves building networking capabilities, managing production systems, and collaborating across engineering and leadership.

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
• 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
• Proficiency in Go or Rust; familiarity with PHP and SQL a plus