Senior Software Engineer, Network Automation

NorthMark Strategies • Dallas, TX

20h

About The Position

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) is a company focused on scaling and enhancing high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure to support client research, production, and delivery. Their engineers build critical infrastructure to eliminate friction in scientific research, simulations, analysis, and decision-making, accelerating discovery and driving faster innovation. The role is for an experienced Senior Engineer skilled in Python and BGP, who has designed and built tools and services for automated, scalable, and self-service networking across global infrastructure. This hands-on engineering position involves leveraging expertise in networking and software engineering to automate the provisioning and management of complex data center network environments. The engineer will collaborate with network engineers, platform engineers, and security teams to ensure a reliable, secure, and efficient networking stack. The role includes leading the design and implementation of automation solutions for large-scale compute infrastructure, driving architectural decisions, and improving programmatic network management. The individual will own projects end-to-end from design through production.

Requirements

• Proven experience spanning software development and network engineering, with direct ownership of automation and tooling projects.
• Strong programming skills in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals - testing, version control, CI/CD, code review.
• Experience with API design, service integration, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with service discovery, secrets management, policy-as-code frameworks.
• Deep understanding of computer networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing, and network security concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Jinja2).
• Expertise in cloud native technologies including containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed system concepts: microservice architecture, data consistency, fault tolerance strategies, security, and observability patterns.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort navigating ambiguity – you take ownership and drive projects to completion.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional, agile engineering teams, and flexibility to adapt to fast-changing technical environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with relational, NoSQL, or graph databases - we use a mix depending on the problem.
• Knowledge of event-driven or message-based architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Understanding of large-scale data center networking concepts and vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Arista, Juniper) and technologies such as segment routing, multitenant network designs.
• Deep understanding of routing, switching, firewalls, core protocols (BGP, OSPF, VRF, VLAN, ACL, firewall object groups etc.) and infrastructure design principles.
• Experience applying ML or AI techniques to infrastructure problems – for example predictive analytics, anomaly detection, or automated remediation workflows.
• Prior contributions to open-source networking or automation projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks that simplify network provisioning and lifecycle management across global infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural design discussions, ensuring automation is built for long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Develop software in Python and leverage tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2 to implement software-driven network designs/IaC practices.
• Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines, enabling testable, repeatable, and reliable deployments.
• Build APIs and tooling to expose networking capabilities as self-service interfaces for engineering teams.
• Implement observability and telemetry workflows for network performance and availability using modern monitoring stacks.
• Collaborate with Network Engineering, Security, and Platform teams to deliver resilient and scalable automation solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, contributing to incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements.

Benefits

• Company-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub
• Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%
• Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.
• Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed