Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is a leading cloud infrastructure company committed to providing high-performance, accessible cloud solutions. They are seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Networking to architect and lead the evolution of their global cloud networking platform, focusing on scalable and secure network services.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- High-performance networking hardware (Trident4, DPUs, etc.)
- Legacy system modernization
- Network security or multi-tenant firewall experience
- Cloud provider or hyperscaler background
Benefits
- 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
- 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
Company Overview
Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.vultr.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Vultr has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.