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Lead Software Engineer – Infrastructure Agents (Go/Linux Networking)

About Netris

Netris is the leading network automation platform for AI clouds. AI is the largest infrastructure buildout in history, and networking is its bottleneck. Netris is the automation and multi-tenancy layer for AI cloud networking, enabling operators to launch GPU clouds in weeks, provision tenants instantly, and maximize GPU utilization. The company experienced 800% ARR growth in the last 12 months, with 35+ live GPU cluster deployments globally and growing, and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz. SDN reinvented data center networking, and Netris is doing it for the AI cloud with NAAM: Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy.

About the role

We are looking for a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of distributed agents running across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role with ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep systems engineering expertise, strong Linux networking knowledge, and experience building resilient distributed infrastructure components operating in large-scale environments.

What you’ll do

  • Lead architecture and development of high-performance infrastructure agents written in Golang
  • Build systems managing L2/L3 networking, routing, switching, VXLAN/EVPN overlays, NAT, ACLs, and policy enforcement
  • Design scalable telemetry, observability, and monitoring pipelines
  • implement resilient communication mechanisms using gRPC and event-driven architectures
  • Ensure agents operate efficiently across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments
  • Optimize systems for performance, resiliency, scalability, and low resource utilization
  • Participate in architecture reviews and mentor engineers

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience
  • Strong production experience with Golang
  • Deep understanding of Linux networking internals
  • Experience with BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, routing, NAT, and ACLs
  • Experience building distributed systems and agent-based architectures
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in production environments

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with Kubernetes CNI implementations
  • Experience with SmartNIC / DPU platforms
  • Experience in hyperscaler or infrastructure companies
  • Experience with AI infrastructure or GPU networking

Compensation, benefits, logistics

  • Competitive Salary + Stock options
  • Santa Clara, CA preferred; remote considered for exceptional candidates
  • Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k), Disability insurance, flexible PTO

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