Software Engineer Network Automation, Data Center Fabrics
Mistral · Remote · Paris · Amsterdam · Warsaw · Munich · London · Berlin ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Network Automation
- Go + Kubernetes
- Data Center Fabrics
- Senior Level
You will design and operate large-scale networks supporting Mistral's AI compute infrastructure. The work involves translating fabric requirements into automated APIs, building reliable control-plane software, and ensuring safe change workflows across multi-tenant environments.
What you'll do
- Design leaf-spine underlays and EVPN/VXLAN overlays for AI infrastructure
- Build control-plane software to reconcile desired and observed network state
- Create safe change workflows with validation, dry runs, and atomic updates
- Integrate with switch operating systems while maintaining vendor-neutral abstractions
- Participate in on-call rotation to troubleshoot and restore network services
- Review designs and code to improve network engineering quality
- Develop lab and production tests based on operational lessons
What you'll need
- Deep experience with Ethernet switching, IP routing, and BGP-based fabrics
- Expertise in EVPN/VXLAN and VRF-based multitenancy
- Strong judgment on fabric scale, convergence, isolation, and failure modes
- Experience building production network automation with idempotency and recovery
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language
- Willingness to become productive in Go
- Experience with southbound APIs like REST, gNMI/OpenConfig, or NETCONF
- Hands-on work with NOS such as Cumulus Linux, Arista EOS, SONiC, or Junos
- Diagnostic skills using packet captures, telemetry, and routing state
Nice to have
- Experience reading or contributing to Go code
- Familiarity with Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs
- Experience with network labs like containerlab, NVIDIA Air, or GNS3
- Knowledge of high-performance Ethernet, RoCE, InfiniBand, or GPU infrastructure
Stack
- Go
- Kubernetes
- BGP
- EVPN/VXLAN
- Cumulus Linux
- Arista EOS
- SONiC
- Junos
- NX-OS
- gNMI/OpenConfig
- NETCONF
How you'll work
- Distributed team across Europe, North America, Asia, and Middle East
- On-call rotation for network incident response
What you get
- Healthcare coverage varies by country
- Parental leave options
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal and transportation allowances