Manager, Cloud Networking

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing Cloud Networking engineering team, providing regular coaching, setting clear expectations, and helping engineers reach the next stage of their careers.
• Create a healthy engineering culture centered on ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and long-term craftsmanship in networking software.
• Drive strong engineering fundamentals - testing, validation, reproducibility, rollback safety, change control, observability, and operational readiness
• Own the Cloud Networking roadmap, including VPC, routing, NAT/IGW, firewall/security groups, and customer-facing networking features.
• Manage and mentor a team of network-minded software engineers building automation, controllers, and dataplane implementations for scale.
• Drive development of networking APIs and control-plane logic, ensuring correctness, scalability, and straightforward integration into Vultr’s platform and orchestration layers.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, overlay construction, VRF segmentation, route distribution, and dataplane policy enforcement.
• Own the automation stack for network provisioning and lifecycle management - Network device configuration generation, device onboarding flows, controller logic, and intent application.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Orchestration, Compute, and GPU/AI teams to integrate networking behavior into provisioning workflows and cluster operations.
• Define the model and schema for new network constructs (e.g., VPC features, routing modes, Gateway/NAT capabilities, private connectivity, cross-region constructs).
• Ensure quality and consistency across network software — testing, validation, rollbacks, canaries, structured CI/CD, reproducibility, auditability.
• Work with Architecture to align feature design with long-term fabric strategy (EVPN, VTEP lifecycle, multi-tenant segmentation, QoS, RDMA coexistence).
• Coordinate with NetDevOps to build operational tooling, validate configurations, improve telemetry, and close automation gaps.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing engineering teams - hiring talent, fostering development, and building a safe but high-performing environment for the team.
• Deep experience with modern data center + cloud networking: EVPN-VXLAN, L3 multi-tenancy, VRFs, routing policy, NAT, load balancing, firewalling.
• Experience building or leading networking software - Python, Go, or Rust controllers, orchestration flows, gRPC/REST APIs, daemons integrating with Linux datapath or hardware switches.
• Hands-on knowledge of Linux networking: netlink, iptables/nftables, namespaces, routing stacks, kernel dataplane behavior.
• Working familiarity with Junos EVO, Cumulus Linux, SONiC, or similar open-networking systems.