Software Engineer Network Automation, Data Center Fabrics
Mistral AI2 months ago
Paris, France +5 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and tenant connectivity for multi-tenant AI infrastructure.
- Translate network fabric requirements and safety properties into APIs, data models, validation, and automation.
- Build control-plane software that reconciles desired and observed network state.
- Develop safe change workflows with validation, dry runs, atomic updates, observability, and failure recovery.
- Integrate with data-center switch operating systems and management APIs using vendor-neutral abstractions where practical.
- Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot data-center network incidents, restore service, and implement lasting improvements.
- Review designs and code, communicate networking trade-offs, and improve network engineering quality.
- Develop lab and production tests based on operational lessons.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience with Ethernet switching, IP routing, BGP-based leaf-spine fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, and VRF-based multitenancy.
- Strong judgment in fabric underlay and overlay design, scale, convergence, isolation, and failure modes.
- Experience building or operating production network automation involving desired state, idempotency, concurrency, observability, and recovery.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language, including designing, testing, debugging, and reviewing production systems.
- Experience with southbound network APIs and structured configuration such as gNMI/OpenConfig or NETCONF.
- Hands-on experience with major data-center network operating systems such as Cumulus Linux, Arista EOS, SONiC, Junos, or NX-OS.
- Strong diagnostic skills using routing and EVPN state, packet captures, counters, telemetry, and logs.
- Clear, pragmatic communication and a collaborative approach to technical leadership.
- Go code experience, Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, reconciliation, or Kubebuilder experience is preferred.
- Experience with containerlab, NVIDIA Air, EVE-NG, GNS3, high-performance Ethernet, RoCE, InfiniBand, HPC, or large-scale GPU infrastructure is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances, varying by country.
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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.