Lead Software engineer - Network infrastructure - APAC

Nebius is hiring a Lead Software Engineer to build and operate software that automates network operations and connects network infrastructure with its cloud platform. The role owns architecture and delivery for the APAC area, collaborates with network and SRE teams, and grows the regional engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain services and tooling that automate the network lifecycle: day-0 provisioning, day-N changes, drift detection, and operational verification
• Make network changes safe and transparent: CI/CD workflows, diff/review tooling, staged rollouts/rollbacks, audit trails, and guardrails
• Develop observability systems that scale across many sites: telemetry pipelines, signal quality, and tooling that shortens incident investigations
• Close "last mile" gaps between the network and the platform: integrate source-of-truth data, expose APIs, and build reliable automation around it
• Own architecture and technical decisions for your area in APAC, and align them with the European teams
• Collaborate closely with network engineers and SREs to turn real operational pain into product-quality tooling
• Hire and onboard the first engineers in the region, set code quality and engineering standards, and mentor the team
• Manage large-scale projects involving multiple stakeholders across regions
• Break down complex tasks and guide both their own work and that of more junior colleagues
• Be experts in specific technologies and write high-quality code that can serve as a reference
• Assess task priority and focus on high-impact work, avoiding low-value efforts
• Have strong architectural thinking and contribute to system design
• Lead hiring in the region: define the profile, run interviews, and make hiring decisions
• Share knowledge and mentor others

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent practical background), including experience as a tech lead or team lead with broad ownership
• Strong coding skills and ownership mindset: you can ship and operate reliable services
• Proficiency in Go or readiness to switch; Python is also welcome (other languages can be useful for OSS debugging/fixes)
• Ability to work autonomously in an early-stage environment, make decisions with incomplete information, and build processes from scratch
• Willingness to stay hands-on while leading and growing a team
• You don't have to be a Network expert, but we expect you to have interest in infrastructure and/or network
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply
• Background in networking (ex-network engineer, CCNP/education, DC networking exposure) or strong interest and proven ability to learn fast
• Experience building automation/infra tooling: CI/CD, IaC, testing/staging environments, or "network-as-code" style workflows
• Low-level networking / datapath experience: eBPF/XDP, DPDK, kernel networking, traffic processing systems
• Experience designing high-load services and observability platforms (metrics/logs/traces, alerting, regression detection)
• Contributions to open source or experience extending/debugging OSS components in production environments
• Experience building an engineering team from scratch or launching a new engineering hub