Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 32 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
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We’re looking for a Principal Engineer, Cloud Networking to architect and lead the evolution of Vultr’s global cloud networking platform. You’ll drive design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure network services including VPC, edge connectivity, and security features. This is a cross-functional, hands-on role shaping the networking foundation of Vultr's infrastructure.
What You’ll Do- 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
- 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
Compensation
$140,000 - $180,000
This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.
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