Software Engineer Network Automation, WAN & Edge

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential AI infrastructure organization seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Network Automation, WAN & Edge. This Paris-based role offers the chance to design and automate resilient connectivity across data centers, cloud environments, and internet edge points at significant scale.

You'll work on production-grade automation for routing, firewalls, traffic engineering, and external BGP policy—applying strong software-engineering judgment to build systems that keep critical AI infrastructure connected and performant.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve resilient inter-site, cloud, and internet connectivity for large-scale infrastructure
• Own external BGP policy and traffic engineering at the edge, 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, incident escalation, and service improvement
• Design safe change workflows with automated validation, resilience testing, staged rollouts, observability, rollback, and recovery
• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot active WAN and edge incidents, restore service, and turn root causes into lasting improvements
• Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Deep, hands-on WAN and edge networking experience across internet connectivity, data-center interconnect, private WAN, or cloud networking
• Track record of taking external BGP designs from whiteboard to production and debugging them during production incidents
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting stateful firewalls, NAT, asymmetric routing, and redundant edge designs on at least one major routing or firewall platform
• Experience building or operating production network automation using network-management APIs and data models; understanding of desired state and idempotency (technologies may include REST, NETCONF, gNMI/OpenConfig, Ansible, or Terraform)
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language; ability to design, test, debug, and review production systems; willingness to become productive in Go
• Operational troubleshooting experience using routing and flow state, packet captures, link health, telemetry, and logs to diagnose production incidents
• Clear, pragmatic communication and effective stakeholder management; ability to translate technical needs into connectivity designs and provider requirements

Nice to Have:

• Experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, or comparable edge and firewall platforms
• Deeper specialization in external connectivity, such as public-cloud or hybrid-cloud interconnect, or internet transit and peering
• Exposure to edge security and scale techniques such as RPKI and route-origin validation, DDoS mitigation, or global traffic engineering
• Familiarity with streaming telemetry, network source-of-truth systems, and configuration-compliance tooling
• Experience reading, reviewing, or contributing to Go code
• Familiarity with Kubernetes controllers, operators, or other declarative, reconciliation-based systems

How We Work With You

Candidates apply through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will screen your application and conduct an initial interview. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client and coordinate next steps. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication flows through our team to protect your candidacy and ensure a smooth process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive for this level of expertise in the Paris market.

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