Software Engineer Network Automation, WAN & Edge
Mistral AI28 days ago
Paris, France +5 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve resilient inter-site, cloud, and internet connectivity for large-scale AI infrastructure.
- Own external BGP policy and edge traffic engineering, including route filtering, failover, and capacity planning.
- Build API-driven automation for edge routing, firewalls, VPNs, carrier connectivity, and network segmentation.
- Coordinate with carriers, cloud connectivity providers, colocation partners, and vendors on design, provisioning, incidents, and service improvements.
- Design automated validation, resilience testing, staged rollout, observability, rollback, and recovery workflows.
- Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot WAN and edge incidents, restore service, and implement root-cause improvements.
- Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and improve network engineering quality across the organization.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on WAN and edge networking experience across internet connectivity, data-center interconnect, private WAN, or cloud networking.
- Experience taking external BGP designs from conception through production and debugging them during incidents.
- Experience integrating and troubleshooting stateful firewalls, NAT, asymmetric routing, and redundant edge designs on a major routing or firewall platform.
- Experience building or operating production network automation with network-management APIs and data models, including understanding of desired state and idempotency.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language, including the ability to design, test, debug, and review production systems, with willingness to become productive in Go.
- Operational troubleshooting experience using routing and flow state, packet captures, link health, telemetry, and logs.
- Clear communication, stakeholder management, technical leadership, and the ability to translate technical needs into connectivity designs, provider requirements, acceptance criteria, and service-level expectations.
- Nice-to-have experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, public-cloud or hybrid-cloud interconnect, internet transit and peering, RPKI, route-origin validation, DDoS mitigation, global traffic engineering, streaming telemetry, network source-of-truth systems, configuration-compliance tooling, Go code, or Kubernetes controllers and operators.
Benefits
- Benefits may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances, varying by country.
- The role is part of distributed teams across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East; location-specific benefits are provided through the company benefits page.
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About Mistral AI
Mistral AI builds foundation language models and full‑stack AI solutions for enterprises, offering APIs, on‑prem deployment, developer tools, and applications. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Paris, partners with organizations in finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to co‑create customized systems. It releases open‑source models alongside commercial offerings and makes its models available through major cloud marketplaces.