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Principal Engineer, Cloud Networking

Posted 22 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
150K-180K
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
150K-180K
Senior level
Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud networking solutions, focusing on VPC, security, and orchestration features while managing services and supporting production systems.
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Who We Are

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.  With 32 cloud data center locations around the world, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares
  • Excellent Medical Benefits w/ 100% company-paid premiums for employee only plan + 100% company-paid dental & vision premiums
  • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting
  • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
  • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan + take your birthday off
  • Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year & 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
  • $500 first year remote office setup + $400 each following year for new equipment
  • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
  • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
  • Company-paid Wellable subscription

Join Vultr

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer, Cloud Networking to architect and lead the evolution of Vultr’s global cloud networking platform. You’ll drive design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure network services including VPC, edge connectivity, and security features. This is a cross-functional, hands-on role shaping the networking foundation of Vultr's infrastructure.


What You’ll Do
  • Lead technical design for next-gen cloud networking: VPC, security groups, gateways, routing domains
  • Align networking roadmap with product and infrastructure teams
  • 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
What we’re looking for: 
  • 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
Bonus Experience:
  • High-performance networking hardware (Trident4, DPUs, etc.)
  • Legacy system modernization
  • Network security or multi-tenant firewall experience
  • Cloud provider or hyperscaler background

Compensation

$150,000 - $180,000

This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.

Vultr is committed to an inclusive workforce where diversity is celebrated and supported. All employment decisions at Vultr are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

Vultr regards the lawful and correct use of personal information as important to the accomplishment of our objectives, to the success of our operations and to maintaining confidence between those with whom we deal and ourselves. As such the use of various key privacy controls enables Vultr’s treatment of personal information to meet current regulatory guidelines and laws.

Workforce members have the right under US state law where and when applicable and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to: fair and equal treatment, knowing what personal data we gather and retain, for what purpose, and the ability to access and/or delete such data. You also have the right to opt out of communications from Vultr and approved third- parties at any time.

Top Skills

Evpn
Go
Kubernetes
Linux
PHP
Rust
Sdn
SQL
Vxlan

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