Director of Software Engineering-Core Global WAN

You will work across architecture, engineering, operations, security, and risk teams to modernize how global connectivity services are designed, deployed, validated, and operated. This role requires a technical leader who can make high-impact design decisions, remain close to engineering execution, and use software, automation, telemetry, and enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to improve network reliability and operational efficiency.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, engineering, and execution of a multiyear transformation from multiple wide area networks to a unified global network platform.
• Define the technical strategy for carrier-scale routing, segment routing, traffic engineering, path optimization, capacity management, and network resiliency.
• Translate complex network architecture into executable engineering plans spanning design, certification, migration, implementation, and production rollout.
• Design and deliver software-defined capabilities that automate network configuration, route validation, change execution, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Develop pre-change and post-change validation frameworks that identify configuration issues, routing anomalies, and potential resiliency risks.
• Apply enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to support anomaly detection, predictive analysis, engineering reviews, and operational decision-making, with appropriate human validation and sensitive-data controls.
• Establish engineering standards and portfolio-level guardrails for automation and artificial intelligence-assisted workflows, ensuring traceability, auditability, security, and resiliency.
• Improve global network stability through telemetry, disciplined incident and problem management, repeat-issue remediation, and measurable reliability improvements.
• Partner with software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, operations, and control teams to align priorities and manage technical trade-offs.
• Provide technical leadership across strategic initiatives and influence engineering standards, platform roadmaps, and long-term investment decisions.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders and communicate complex architecture, delivery risks, and engineering decisions clearly.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, network engineering, or a related technical discipline, and 10+ years of applied experience.
• Extensive experience designing, engineering, or operating large-scale global wide area networks, telecommunications backbones, cloud networks, or similarly complex network environments.
• Deep technical knowledge of Multiprotocol Label Switching, segment routing, Border Gateway Protocol, traffic engineering, routing policy, network resiliency, and capacity management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead both architecture-level design and hands-on technical execution for large, complex network transformation or migration programs.
• Advanced knowledge of network automation and software-defined infrastructure, including practical programming experience with Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Experience developing engineering solutions using application programming interfaces, infrastructure as code, continuous integration and delivery practices, configuration management, and automated testing.
• Proven ability to build automated pre-change and post-change validation, network telemetry, monitoring, or anomaly-detection capabilities.
• Experience making high-impact technical decisions across architecture, engineering, certification, deployment, and production operations.
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities within technical workflows, including validation of generated outputs and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Ability to establish review, approval, and escalation standards for automation and artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and deliver complex, enterprise-impacting initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience engineering networks at a telecommunications provider, hyperscale technology company, cloud provider, or other organization operating a large global backbone.
• Hands-on experience with Arista and Cisco network technologies in large-scale production environments.
• Experience consolidating multiple network environments or leading complex global network migrations.
• Experience developing advanced traffic-steering capabilities that extend beyond traditional primary and backup connectivity models.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud and hybrid connectivity, observability platforms, and data-driven network operations.
• Experience applying machine learning or artificial intelligence to network validation, anomaly detection, predictive analysis, or operational automation.
• Demonstrated ability to strengthen risk and control practices through governance, compliance execution, exception management, and high-risk change reviews.

Base Pay/Salary: Plano,TX $175,750.00-$260,000.00; Jersey City,NJ $204,250.00-$285,000.00; Columbus,OH $166,250.00-$245,000.00; San Francisco,CA $204,250.00-$285,000.00