Senior Network Developer

Oracle•Seattle, WA

9d•$91,400 - $187,000

About The Position

The Senior Network Developer will design, deploy, validate, and operate large-scale global cloud networks for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The Infrastructure Scaling team deploys new network capacity, scales existing capacity, migrates to updated designs, establishes connectivity for new OCI regions, and enables compute connectivity for availability domains. Its infrastructure includes data center fabrics, edge networks, backbones, fiber metro networks, and multi-cloud connectivity. The role involves approximately 10% travel to OCI data centers and major AI deployment locations for network builds, commissioning, troubleshooting, and critical infrastructure milestones. The position contributes to network lifecycle management, including build and upgrade projects, and works with program and project managers to define milestones and deliverables. The developer executes network changes using established procedures and tools, develops procedures and runbooks as needed, serves as a technical lead on projects, contributes to roadmaps, and mentors junior engineers. The role also includes solution and architecture design, feature development, operational support rotations, break-fix support, escalation handling, and post-event root cause analysis. The developer coordinates with automation teams to create and integrate tooling, scripts routine tasks, and serves as a subject matter expert for network automation projects. They collaborate with vendors to resolve software bugs, qualify firmware and operating systems, and influence product roadmaps. Additional work spans network testing and quality assurance, monitoring and reliability, performance and capacity management, change reviews, governance documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development; or a relevant bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of such experience; or a relevant master's degree and at least 2 years of such experience.
Knowledge of cloud architecture, including designing scalable, reliable, and performant cloud services.
Experience securing enterprise networks using modern security controls and monitoring tools.
Knowledge or experience in vendor management, including vendor communication, service-level monitoring, and issue resolution.
Experience with network protocols and technologies including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.
Proficiency in Python or another programming language used for network automation.
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
Ability to independently manage work and address standard and non-standard issues, escalating more complex issues when appropriate.

Nice To Haves

At least 9 years of relevant experience; or a relevant bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience; or a relevant master's degree and at least 3 years; or a relevant doctorate and at least 1 year.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in hyperscale cloud, ISP, or large enterprise networking environments.
Strong understanding of modern data center networking architectures.
Hands-on experience with commodity Ethernet platforms, including Broadcom and NVIDIA/Mellanox-based hardware.
Experience with Internet peering, backbone networking, and large-scale network operations.
Experience with network automation frameworks and APIs.
Familiarity with YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF, gNMI, and model-driven networking.
Experience with telemetry, observability, network monitoring, and performance analysis.
Knowledge of network security principles and high-availability architectures.
Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Oracle AI, GitHub Copilot, or ChatGPT Enterprise to improve software development, automation, documentation, and operational efficiency.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) certification within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, validate, and operate network fabrics and systems for large-scale enterprise, data center, and cloud environments.
Participate in network solution and architecture design and validation, assess deployment risks, and recommend mitigations.
Validate production networks and develop scaling strategies for varied use cases.
Manage network lifecycle build and upgrade projects; coordinate milestones and deliverables with program and project managers.
Execute network changes using established procedures and tools, and develop new procedures, runbooks, and methods of procedure as needed.
Serve as a technical lead on projects, contribute to roadmaps and software architecture discussions, and mentor junior engineers.
Develop standalone network features and participate in operational support rotations, break-fix support, escalation response, and post-event root cause analysis.
Coordinate with automation teams to develop and integrate tools; write scripts and automation to improve routine and support tasks.
Design and build modules within automation frameworks, dashboards, telemetry systems, alerting mechanisms, and monitoring tools.
Develop test cases and strategies, lead test practices, improve break-fix validation, and conduct L1 network change reviews and change-board presentations.
Collaborate with stakeholders on pre-production testing and provide audit documentation and evidence for governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
Monitor network health, define service-level metrics and thresholds, investigate anomalies, and improve frontline support tools.
Analyze performance and service metrics, including latency, throughput, and packet loss, and use capacity information to support anticipated growth.
Collaborate with customers, vendors, quality assurance, monitoring teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure network standards are met.
Qualify new firmware and operating systems, collaborate with vendors to resolve software bugs, and contribute to product roadmap influence.
Independently manage work, prioritize tasks, adapt to resource or timeline changes, troubleshoot issues, share knowledge, and recommend process improvements.