Software Engineer Network Automation, Data Center Fabrics

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential AI infrastructure organization with operations across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. We are seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Network Automation and Data Center Fabrics to join their Paris team.

This is a hands-on role for a networking expert who is also comfortable building production software. You will help design and build systems for operating large-scale networks within high-performance data centers, applying deep networking expertise to leaf-spine architecture, automation, testing, and production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and tenant connectivity for multi-tenant infrastructure
• Translate data-center fabric requirements and safety properties into clear APIs, data models, validation, and automation
• Build reliable control-plane software that reconciles desired and observed network state
• Design safe change workflows with validation, dry runs, atomic updates, observability, and failure recovery
• Integrate with data-center switch operating systems and management APIs while maintaining vendor-neutral abstractions where practical
• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot active data-center network 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
• Develop lab and production tests and turn operational lessons into better software and architecture

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Deep hands-on experience with Ethernet switching, IP routing, BGP-based leaf-spine fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, and VRF-based multitenancy
• Strong judgment around fabric underlay and overlay design, scale, convergence, isolation, and failure modes
• Experience building or operating production network automation, including desired state, idempotency, concurrency, observability, and recovery
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in a general-purpose language with ability to design, test, debug, and review production systems
• Willingness to become productive in Go
• Experience with southbound network APIs and structured configuration, such as REST, 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience reading, reviewing, or contributing to Go code
• Familiarity with Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, reconciliation, or Kubebuilder
• Experience with physical or simulated network labs such as containerlab, NVIDIA Air, EVE-NG, GNS3, or similar environments
• Experience with high-performance Ethernet, RoCE, InfiniBand, HPC, or large-scale GPU infrastructure

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all applications must be coordinated through our team to be considered.

Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support well-being, growth, and work-life balance, including healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive with the market for this specialized role in Paris.

Equal Opportunity

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