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Staff Network Engineer, App Platform

Scale AI
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
17 days ago
Department
Applications Platform Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of network engineering experience, including designing and operating production networks in cloud environments
  • Deep expertise in cloud networking on at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP: VPC design, peering, Transit Gateway/hub-and-spoke topologies, private connectivity (PrivateLink, Private Service Connect), and DNS
  • Kubernetes networking depth — CNI, ingress, NetworkPolicy, service mesh (Istio/Envoy)
  • Strong fundamentals in TCP/IP, BGP, routing, firewalls, VPN (site-to-site and client), and TLS
  • Experience with edge/CDN and traffic-management platforms such as Cloudflare
  • Has defined a network standard or reference architecture that other teams adopted, and enforced it through design review
Nice to have
  • Familiarity with network security and compliance requirements in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, government), including environments across multiple compliance regimes (commercial, FedRAMP/GovCloud, air-gapped)
What the job really is

The Staff Network Engineer for the App Platform will be responsible for defining and enforcing network architecture standards for Scale's enterprise AI platform, SGP, across various cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role involves designing VPC architectures, managing traffic flow, and ensuring secure connectivity between Scale's control plane and customer data planes, while also collaborating with security engineering to meet compliance requirements.

Benefits
  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • commuter stipend
Things to weigh
  • no specific salary listed; range provided is $1 — $1 USD, which may not reflect actual compensation
  • role involves significant responsibility as the sole domain owner
  • position requires navigating complex compliance and security requirements in regulated industries
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