Staff Site Reliability Engineer- Networking
Senior SRE role at a partner company running a large-scale internet intelligence and cybersecurity platform. You own networking strategy across hybrid infrastructure — data centers, GCP, Kubernetes and edge — designing and automating load balancing, DNS, BGP, and TLS via Go/Python, Terraform and GitOps, plus leading resilience and DDoS/WAF efforts.
- Compensation
- $172K–$233K / yr
- Location
- Canada
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years in network engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering with production networking experience
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, anycast, DNS, TLS, and large-scale load balancing
- Experience designing, building, and operating hybrid infrastructure spanning physical data centers and public cloud, ideally GCP
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes networking (CNI, ingress controllers, service mesh)
- Experience building network automation and tooling using Go or Python
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and GitOps with tools like Terraform, Crossplane, or ArgoCD
- Experience with highly available network architectures, disaster recovery, and cross-data-center failover
- Strong technical leadership; ability to influence architectural decisions across teams without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with bias toward action and continuous improvement
Nice to have
- Experience managing large-scale traffic delivery in consumer-facing environments (streaming, CDNs, global anycast networks)
- Proven ability to eliminate repetitive operational work through automation (TLS rotation, failover testing, capacity forecasting)
- Familiarity with internet measurement, scanning infrastructure, or security-related network operations
- Understanding of how large-scale scanning traffic interacts with peering, abuse reporting, and internet infrastructure providers
- Interest in using AI/LLMs for infrastructure engineering, incident analysis, and configuration automation
- Contributions to the wider technical community (conference talks, open source, publications)
Full description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Networking based in Canada.
In this senior technical role, you will define and lead networking strategy across a globally distributed hybrid infrastructure supporting a large-scale internet intelligence and cybersecurity platform. You will take ownership of critical network architecture spanning physical data centers, public cloud environments, Kubernetes, and edge infrastructure. Your work will directly influence platform reliability, performance, security, and the ability to deliver real-time internet intelligence to customers worldwide. You will design and automate network infrastructure using software engineering principles, ensuring that infrastructure changes are reliable, scalable, and continuously deployable. Working across engineering and infrastructure teams, you will establish technical standards, lead complex resilience initiatives, and drive long-term architectural improvements. This is an opportunity to combine deep networking expertise with hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and innovation in a mission-driven cybersecurity environment.
Accountabilities
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Define and own the technical direction for networking across a hybrid infrastructure, covering physical data center networks, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) VPC architecture, Kubernetes networking, and edge protection.
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Design, develop, and automate core networking capabilities, including load balancing, ingress, routing, DNS, BGP peering, and TLS termination, integrating infrastructure changes into GitOps pipelines.
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Lead cross-data-center resilience initiatives for globally distributed on-premises scanning infrastructure, including failover architecture, disaster recovery, and workload continuity.
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Develop and maintain edge protection strategies for internet-facing platforms, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation, Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions, and traffic engineering.
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Ensure network infrastructure delivers the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability required to support large-scale scanning operations and customer-facing APIs.
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Establish networking and reliability standards across engineering teams, identifying architectural improvements, technical debt, and opportunities to strengthen infrastructure resilience.
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Lead multi-quarter infrastructure initiatives, developing technical proposals, securing cross-functional alignment, and influencing architectural decisions across teams.
-Mentor and support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team members, strengthening internal networking expertise through knowledge sharing, technical guidance, and sustainable engineering practices.